US Patent Issued to Stern Pinball on July 28 for "Rotating target and ramp assembly for a pinball machine" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,367, issued on July 28, was assigned to Stern Pinball Inc. (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).

"Rotating target and ramp assembly for a pinball machine" was invented by Keith Elwin (Elk Grove Village, Ill.), J. Harrison Drake Jr. (Elk Grove Village, Ill.) and Richard J Naegele (Elk Grove Village, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pinball machine includes a game cabinet supporting a playfield having a target and ramp assembly mounted to the playfield. The target and ramp assembly includes a carriage rotatably mountable to the playfield and an actuator operatively coupled to the carriage for rotating the carriage about a rotating axis betwe...