A63B 37/0001
Balls with finger holes
Official title: {Balls with finger holes, e.g. for bowling}
A63B37/0001 (Balls with finger holes) appears on 153 US grants and 64 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 64
- Assignees
- 28
- Inventors
- 205
- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Structural energy storage for CF based personal mobility and lightweight delivery2 Jun 2026US 12,642,735 B2Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North Inc
- Training ball1 Apr 2025US 12,263,391 B2
- Bowling ball finger grip17 Sep 2024US 12,090,368 B2
- Interchangeable bowling apparatus21 Dec 2021US 11,202,937 B2Jopo Grips, LLC
- Methods and systems associated with an object for a game23 Jun 2020US 10,688,348 B2
- Rotationally adjustable finger grip insert for bowling ball18 Jun 2026US 2026/0166383 A1
- Training ball31 Jul 2025US 2025/0242223 A1
- Bowling balls and methods of forming the same24 Oct 2024US 2024/0350867 A1
- Systems and techniques for data assisted sport augmentation7 Mar 2024US 2024/0075342 A1Nagravision Sarl
- Training ball3 Aug 2023US 2023/0241473 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Luminous bowling ball29US 6,280,344 B1Ebonite International, Inc. · 2001
- Decorative bowling ball and method therefor29US 6,743,109 B2Brunswick Bowling & Billards Corporation · 2004
- Bowling ball26US 4,802,671 A1989
- Method and apparatus for making and/or decorating bowling balls and the like24US 6,524,419 B1Brunswick Bowling & Billiards Corporation · 2003
- Bowling ball22US 4,131,277 A1978