US Patent Issued to Schell Games on Oct. 14 for "Devices, systems, and methods for enhancing the gameplay of toy" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,776, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Schell Games LLC (Pittsburgh).

"Devices, systems, and methods for enhancing the gameplay of toy" was invented by Jesse Schell (Pittsburgh), David Purta (Pittsburgh) and Eric Policaro (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods of enhancing the gameplay of a toy are disclosed herein. For example, the toy can be a remotely controlled vehicle that includes a radio frequency identification ("RFID") reader, configured to detect signals generated by a plurality of markers with RFID tags. Each marker of the plurality can be arranged such that the markers define a course fo...