A63B 47/025
Installations continuously collecting balls from the playing areas
Official title: {Installations continuously collecting balls from the playing areas, e.g. by gravity, with conveyor belts}
A63B47/025 (Installations continuously collecting balls from the playing areas) appears on 187 US grants and 83 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ball collecting and returning installation11 Aug 2026US 12,702,899 B2Court 16, Inc.
- Golf ball imaging for golf entertainment venue12 May 2026US 12,623,129 B2Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
- Pitching practice machine and method21 Apr 2026US 12,605,607 B1
- Above-ground, and/or subterranean golf driving range with range-field-surface(s) intentionally sloped, or slanted longitudinally21 Apr 2026US 12,605,610 B1
- Golf ball identification apparatus and system4 Nov 2025US 12,458,862 B1Topgolf International, Inc.
- Ball return system6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224946 A1TRK Corporation
- Pitching practice machine and method23 Apr 2026US 2026/0108792 A1
- Apparatus for assisting putting practice16 Oct 2025US 2025/0319379 A1
- Dual-Purpose Pitching and Pitchback Machine with Shock-Absorbing Netting and Ball-Chute Harness25 Sep 2025US 2025/0295971 A1World Sports Products, Inc.
- Novel system and method adapted to enable simultaneous play of one or more sports games in the same facility with automated ball delivery, tracking and collection4 Sep 2025US 2025/0276233 A1Home Run Dugout, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Participatory play structure having discrete play articles153US 5,853,332 A1998
- Participatory play structure having discrete play articles121US 6,283,871 B1Koala Corporation · 2001
- Dry interactive play structure having recirculating play media118US 6,264,202 B12001
- Ball collection arrangement82US 7,056,221 B2World Golf Systems Limited · 2006
- Driving range with automated scoring system79US 5,439,224 A1995