A63B 61/00
Tennis nets or accessories for tennis or like games
Official title: Tennis nets or accessories for tennis or like games {, e.g. volley-ball (devices for holding or carrying balls A63B47/00; for table tennis A63B67/04)}
A63B61/00 (Tennis nets or accessories for tennis or like games) appears on 320 US grants and 254 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63B- Granted patents
- 320
- Published applications
- 254
- Assignees
- 114
- Inventors
- 495
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2004 | 9 | 9 |
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| 2007 | 6 | 11 |
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| 2019 | 11 | 11 |
| 2020 | 7 | 9 |
| 2021 | 5 | 12 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10 |
| 2023 | 8 | 15 |
| 2024 | 7 | 16 |
| 2025 | 14 | 23 |
| 2026 | 11 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Portable sports net11 Aug 2026US 12,702,911 B1Leap Products LLC
- Portable pickleball training net14 Jul 2026US 12,678,676 B2
- Glare-reducing lighting system for an indoor pickleball court7 Jul 2026US 12,674,553 B2Picklr, Inc.
- Devices, systems and methods for using and monitoring sports equipment and sports activities5 May 2026US 12,616,874 B2Canary Medical Switzerland AG
- Glare-reducing lighting system for an indoor pickleball court24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287132 A1
- Devices, systems and methods for using and monitoring sports equipment and sports activities13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233058 A1Canary Medical Switzerland AG
- Sports net restraining device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224957 A1
- Apparatuses and methods for assisting users to practice badminton serves2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183638 A1
- Portable water volleyball instrument2 Jul 2026US 2026/0183640 A1Yongkang Fodo Sports Co.,Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pole sport court98US 5,611,539 AICON Health & Fitness, Inc. · 1997
- Illuminated game ball apparatus64US 5,403,000 A1995
- Volleyball training apparatus56US 6,659,893 B1Airborne Athletics, Inc. · 2003
- Portable net device55US 6,554,717 B22003
- Adjustable ball court system and method for handicapping a contest41US 5,976,039 A1999