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US 12246224
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview: US 12246224 B2
Title: Electric motor and propeller driven toy rocket
Patent number: US 12246224 B2
Application number: US16/888,706 (also published as US20200330888A1)
Inventor: Marc Gregory Martino
Assignee: None listed; the original and current assignee is recorded as "Individual"
Prior art date / priority date: 2010-03-26 (priority claimed from US13/046,089)
Filing date: 2020-05-30
Publication date: 2025-03-11 (granted same day)
Legal status: Active, with an adjusted expiration of 2032-01-23
Purpose and plain-language scope. The supplied text identifies the invention only as an "electric motor and propeller driven toy rocket." Keywords listed for the prior art include "toy," "self," "electric motor," "propeller," and "longitudinal axis." Taken together, these indicate a toy rocket that flies under electric-motor-driven propeller thrust rather than by chemical propulsion or an unpowered launch, and that has a defined longitudinal (lengthwise) axis. That is the full extent of the disclosure available in the excerpt. The excerpt does not contain the abstract, the claims, or the written description, so the specific structural elements, claim limitations, and inventive scope cannot be stated from the supplied material.
What the excerpt does not establish. The supplied text does not include any claim language, independent or dependent; therefore no claimed invention can be characterized. It does not provide an abstract, detailed description, drawings, or embodiments. It does not identify a field-of-use statement, technical problem, or advantage. The assignee status is expressly described by the source as an assumption ("listed assignees may be inaccurate"), as are the priority date and legal status. The excerpt does not address validity, patentability, prior-art references on their merits, litigation, or ownership transfers, and no such analysis is offered here. Dates and identifiers are reported exactly as given in the source.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US12246224/en (fetched 2026-10-06)
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Assignment history
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Prior art
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