ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,982, issued on June 10, was assigned to NECA LLC (Hillside, N.J.).
"Game system with gears and indicia" was invented by Bryan Kinsella (Chapel Hill, S.C.), Chas Delong (Tacoma, Wash.) and Justin Ziran (San Marcos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a game system with gears and indicia, for modular game information record-keeping and record-changing devices, systems, and associated methods based on sets of mechanical gears having game indicia provided thereon. The architecture of the system uses combinations of mechanical gears, cams, shafts, clutches of various types, and other mechanical components that constitute an ...