Size Or Shape Of, Or Aperture In, Free Element Controls Indication Of Response Correctness Patents (Class 434/343)
  • Patent number: 8918718
    Abstract: A system for enhancing reading performance operates on a network-connected server with software executing from a non-transitory medium at the server providing an interactive interface for a user connected to the server via a browser link. There is a data repository coupled to the server. The interactive interface provides a word search exercise for the user for improving the user's reading performance, displays a passage comprising a first number of words and a search list with a second number of words that each appear at least once in the passage, the second number smaller than the first number, and when the user clicks on every word in the passage for a word that appears in the search list, that word is indicated in the list as found, until all the words in the search list have been indicated as found.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: John Burgess Reading Performance System
    Inventor: John Burgess
  • Patent number: 7864986
    Abstract: Response bubbles on a scannable form are provided that allow a user to mark the bubbles in a manner that signifies that the user wishes to have a response disregarded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Gravic, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce D. Holenstein, Owen C. Davison, Victor F. Berutti, Paul J. Holenstein
  • Patent number: 5906369
    Abstract: An electronic matching game includes a plurality of primary game pieces each representative of a mother farm animal, a plurality of secondary game pieces each representative of a baby farm animal associated with one of mother farm animals, and a plurality of removable cover members for selectively concealing the identity of each of the secondary game pieces. The apparatus further includes a base assembly having a first receptacle adapted to interchangeably receive one of the primary game pieces, and further having a second receptacle adapted to interchangeably receive one of the secondary game pieces. The base assembly includes an electronic sound generation device for producing a plurality of sounds, each sound being associated with a respective one of the primary and secondary game pieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1999
    Assignee: Hasbro, Inc.
    Inventors: William H. Brennan, Lucinda I. Tavernise, Frederic W. Stucklen, Robert H. Beck, Michael Marra
  • Patent number: 5634799
    Abstract: Educational apparatus (10) is provided which includes a base member (11) having a plurality of compartments (14) and a plurality of guide channels (50) define therein. Each guide channel (50) interconnects at least two adjacent compartments (14) forming a selection arrangement (51). The apparatus (10) also includes a plurality of tokens (22) and each token (22) is associated with a selection arrangement (51) and locatable in a selected compartment (14) by a user in response to audible or visual observations by the user. The apparatus (10) also has marking means (24) for assessing in use the location of each token (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: The South African Mutual Life Assurance Society
    Inventors: Frankie A. Opperman, Alexis A. F. Wadman
  • Patent number: 5055053
    Abstract: Computer toy to demonstrate logical relationships, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Inventor: Greg Hyman
  • Patent number: 4435164
    Abstract: My present invention relates to didactic apparatus as particularly adapted to the tutelage of mathematical fundamentals, multiple choice statements, and the like. A set of inexpensive instructional problem or "flash" cards is prepared for the student for use in conjunction with, and as an essential part of my invention. Each interrogative card in the set contains a problem statement in student readable form, together with a machine readable cryptogrammic answer for the problem. As each problem card is methodically inserted into my didactic machine, the machine elements interpret the answer cryptogram, while the instructional problem remains visable to the student. The student summarily provides a response by inserting his separately selected answer elements from another set of answer cards which, in a way similar to the problem cards, have the plainly visible response elements clearly inscribed on each card, together with a machine readable code or cryptogram for each response element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Inventor: Harold J. Weber
  • Patent number: 4280809
    Abstract: An educational toy for testing a child's ability to properly associate logically related symbols and teaching proper associations. The toy includes an area for displaying two groups of symbols in a predetermined array on a housing and two members movably mounted to the housing so that the child may move each member into alignment with a symbol from one of the groups. In response to manual actuation of a switch, the toy emits a first signal, indicative of a correct performance, if the members are in alignment with logically related symbols at the time of such actuation and emits a second signal, indicative of incorrect performance, if the members are not so aligned at the time of such actuation. In a preferred embodiment, the toy includes electronic detection and signalling circuitry, a programmed microprocessor forms a part of the detection and signalling circuitry, and the microprocessor may be manually controlled to act in other play modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1981
    Inventors: Lawrence J. Greenberg, Gregory E. Hyman