Patents by Inventor Walter Grubmueller, Jr.

Walter Grubmueller, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10902697
    Abstract: The present inventions concerns a roulette apparatus (1) comprising at least one graphical roulette-display-system (10) and a mechanical wheel (20) having a plurality of pockets (21) adapted to receive a ball, wherein the mechanical wheel (20) and the at least one graphical roulette-display-system (10) is controlled by an electronic-control-system (30) and wherein the at least one graphical roulette-display-system (10) displays a field of numbers and/or symbols and the roulette apparatus (1) further comprising at least one wheel control unit (60) adapted to influence the rotation and/or movement of the mechanical wheel (20) according to the electronic-control-system (30) in order to bring the wheel into a position based on an information received from the electronic-control-system (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventor: Walter Grubmueller, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10803703
    Abstract: A method of playing a modified electronic version of roulette includes providing an executable instruction set hosted on a gaming system having a central server system, a random number generator, a database connected to an electronic network and at least one display for presenting to a player a representation of a roulette wheel, a roulette betting table, and a bet acceptance display for placing bets. A player's bet is placed, and a random number is selected and associated to one of a field of numbers on the betting table representation as the winning number. The winning and losing bets are determined and the winning number is removed from the field of numbers on the betting table. The removed number is replaced with a randomly selected one of the numbers remaining in the field of numbers on the table and the odds of each possible bet are recalculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Inventor: Walter Grubmueller, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20190244469
    Abstract: The present inventions concerns a roulette apparatus (1) comprising at least one graphical roulette-display-system (10) and a mechanical wheel (20) having a plurality of pockets (21) adapted to receive a ball, wherein the mechanical wheel (20) and the at least one graphical roulette-display-system (10) is controlled by an electronic-control-system (30) and wherein the at least one graphical roulette-display-system (10) displays a field of numbers and/or symbols and the roulette apparatus (1) further comprising at least one wheel control unit (60) adapted to influence the rotation and/or movement of the mechanical wheel (20) according to the electronic-control-system (30) in order to bring the wheel into a position based on an information received from the electronic-control-system (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventor: Walter GRUBMUELLER, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10157517
    Abstract: A roulette apparatus (1) comprises at least one mechanical roulette wheel (2) with pockets (3) to receive a ball (4) and roulette-display-system (10) with graphical electronic display (11) surrounding the roulette wheel (2). The electronic display (11) comprises display fields (12) to display single betting numbers (N). A sensor unit (20), a drive unit (30) and a control system (40) are provided and the control system (40) is adapted to receive status information from the sensor unit (20) about the roulette wheel (2) and/or the ball (4) rested in one of the pockets (3) and cause the roulette wheel (2) based on the received status information to be adjusted in a unambiguous final position in relation to the display (11), wherein the pocket (3) with the ball (4) lies completely in congruence with the directly adjacent respective display field (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Inventor: Walter Grubmueller, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20170221299
    Abstract: The present inventions concerns method and a roulette apparatus (1) comprising at least one mechanical roulette wheel (2) with a number of pockets (3) to receive a ball (4) and a roulette-display-system (10) with at least one graphical electronic display (11) surrounding the roulette wheel (2), wherein the electronic display (11) comprising a number of display fields (12) to display single betting numbers (N) and wherein a sensor unit (20), a drive unit (30) and a control system (40) are provided and wherein the control system (40) is adapted to receive status information from the sensor unit (20) about the roulette wheel (2) and/or the ball (4) rested in one of the pockets (3) and the control system (40) may cause the roulette wheel (2) based on the received status information to be adjusted in a unambiguous final position in relation to the display (11), wherein the pocket (3) with the ball (4) lies completely in congruence with the directly adjacent respective display field (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventor: Walter GRUBMUELLER, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9687740
    Abstract: The present invention is referred to a betting/gaming system where the client can bet on numbers with fixed odds. Each cycle consists of a main event and side event and starts with the draw of a set of numbers. Different main events are possible (draws n numbers out of a population of K numbers), as well as side events. The numbers may be drawn by a mechanical device (lottery machine) or generated electronically by a random number generator. Numbers can be drawn locally or on a remote site. This new system creates new a functionality to generate additional turnover/revenue streams during a “standard” lottery drawing process through different main events with new bets, additional side-events, betting during the drawing process, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Inventor: Walter Grubmueller, Jr.