“Game System for Motivating Players to Eat Healthy” in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20180047041)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- A patent application by the inventors Marsh, Jeffrey (Louisville, KY); Slutzky, Stuart (Deerfield, IL), filed on August 10, 2016, was made available online on February 22, 2018, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by VerticalNews correspondents.

This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution.

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: "The present invention is directed to a game system for motivating people to eat healthy. A game player picks objects located on a game board that hides healthy and unhealthy foods (e.g., apples and fast food). The number of healthy foods uncovered by the player determines the amount of discounts the player will receive on purchases of healthy food at a participating grocery store.

"Health insurance companies often provide wellness and rewards programs to incentivize their members to maintain healthy lifestyles. These programs benefit members and insurers by lowering health care costs for insured members. These health rewards programs are designed to reward members for making healthier choices (e.g., exercise and diet) and achieving personal health goals. These programs reward members by providing them points that can be used to redeem gifts or rewards such as gift cards from retailers, health products, or travel perks such as flights or hotel stays."

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent application, VerticalNews journalists also obtained the inventors' summary information for this patent application: "The present invention relates to a game system to incentivize people to eat better through savings on healthier foods (e.g., fruits, vegetables, low-fat dairy). The game system may be implemented by a health insurance company in partnership with a retail grocery store. Health insurance members may be provided with the game board at predetermined set intervals (e.g., once a month) to obtain savings discounts on healthy food for that particular game interval. In one embodiment, the present invention is comprised of: a mobile processing application; an electronic game board generated by the mobile processing application, the electronic game board comprising a plurality of game objects, wherein some of the plurality of game objects are associated with a healthy food item and wherein some of the plurality of game objects are associated with an unhealthy food item; a database for storing identification information for a player and current health food discount data for the player; wherein said mobile processing application is programmed with one or more software routines executing on the mobile processing application to: 1) generate the electronic game board; 2) allow the player to select a predetermined number of game objects; 3) display either a healthy food item or an unhealthy food item each time the player selects a game object; 4) determine the player's current health food discount based on the number of game objects selected by the player associated with a healthy food item; 5) store the current health food discount data for the player after the player makes all of the predetermined number of selections.

"The foregoing and other features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the following more detailed description of the particular embodiments, as illustrated in the accompanying drawings."

URL and more information on this patent application, see: Marsh, Jeffrey; Slutzky, Stuart. Game System for Motivating Players to Eat Healthy. Filed August 10, 2016 and posted February 22, 2018. Patent URL: http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220180047041%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20180047041&RS=DN/20180047041

Keywords for this news article include: Health Insurance, Patent Application.

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