A63B 2024/0053
For locating an object
Official title: {for locating an object, e.g. a lost ball}
A63B2024/0053 (For locating an object) appears on 156 US grants and 199 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
- 156
- Published applications
- 199
- Assignees
- 76
- Inventors
- 295
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 6 |
| 2003 | 6 | 3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 4 |
| 2005 | 1 | 7 |
| 2006 | 2 | 8 |
| 2007 | 2 | 6 |
| 2008 | 0 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 7 |
| 2010 | 8 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2 | 7 |
| 2012 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4 |
| 2014 | 5 | 10 |
| 2015 | 1 | 9 |
| 2016 | 10 | 9 |
| 2017 | 11 | 21 |
| 2018 | 5 | 9 |
| 2019 | 17 | 16 |
| 2020 | 10 | 9 |
| 2021 | 12 | 10 |
| 2022 | 8 | 12 |
| 2023 | 6 | 10 |
| 2024 | 12 | 8 |
| 2025 | 7 | 7 |
| 2026 | 5 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- GPS golf diagnostic system291US 5,434,789 A1995
- Golf ball locator181US 6,113,504 AOblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C. · 2000
- Golf putting game with means for automatically monitoring the movement of the ball140US 7,040,998 B2World Golf Systems Limited · 2006
- System and method for tracking the movement and location of an object in a predefined area135US 7,091,863 B22006
- Training devices for trajectory-based sports133US 8,617,008 B2Pillar Vision, Inc. · 2013