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US 10668332
Electric motor and propeller driven toy rocket
Current assignee: Individual
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview: US10668332B2
Title: Electric motor and propeller driven toy rocket
Patent number: US10668332B2
Application number: US15/917,845
Inventor: Marc Gregory Martino
Current/Original Assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2010-03-26 (also shown as priority claimed from US13/046,089, filed 2011-03-11)
Filing date: 2018-03-12
Publication date (grant): 2020-06-02
Earlier publication: US20180193704A1, published 2018-07-12
Anticipated expiration: 2031-03-11
Legal status: Active (as listed; Google Patents notes this is an assumption, not a legal conclusion)
Purpose and plain-language scope (from the supplied excerpt):
The patent relates to a toy rocket that is driven by an electric motor and a propeller. The excerpt's "prior art keywords" list — electric motor, toy, propeller, self, power source — indicates the disclosed subject matter centers on a self-contained, motor-and-propeller propulsion arrangement for a toy rocket, with an onboard power source. Related versions are noted, including US20180193704A1 and later US12246224B2 (priority to US16/888,706, 2020-05-30). The record also links to an earlier related patent, US8777785B2.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US10668332](/patent/US10668332)/en
What the excerpt does not establish:
The supplied text contains no claims, no detailed description, and no drawings or reference numerals. It therefore does not establish the specific structural elements, claim scope, or limitations of the invention, nor any precise mechanism by which the electric motor and propeller are arranged or controlled. It also does not establish inventorship beyond the single named inventor, the accuracy of the listed assignee, or the dates as legal conclusions (Google Patents expressly labels the priority date, legal status, and assignee listing as assumptions rather than legal conclusions). No information on litigation, ownership transfers, validity, or prior-art rejections is present in the excerpt and none is asserted here.
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