A63F 13/69
By enabling or updating specific game elements
Official title: by enabling or updating specific game elements, e.g. unlocking hidden features, items, levels or versions
A63F13/69 (By enabling or updating specific game elements) appears on 1,842 US grants and 2,574 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 1,842
- Published applications
- 2,574
- Assignees
- 512
- Inventors
- 3,894
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2023 | 186 | 250 |
| 2024 | 193 | 276 |
| 2025 | 164 | 220 |
| 2026 | 93 | 170 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Immersive Full-Body Game Control Systems and Methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306939 A1
- Tracking and representing video game help sessions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306949 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Game system, computer-implemented method, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295414 A1Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- Communication system, one or more computer-readable storage media, and computer-implemented method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295425 A1Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- Ai-adapted non-player character for video game system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295429 A1Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Avatar items and animations507US 8,384,719 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2013
- Gaming system and method of gaming for controlling the display of appearance characteristics of an avatar490US 9,592,449 B2Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited · 2017
- Information-processing device, server device, information-processing method, computer-readable storage medium, communication system, and communication method411US 8,761,800 B2Nintendo Co., Ltd. · 2014
- Shooting game machine and method of computing the same350US 5,853,324 ANamco Ltd. · 1998
- Interactive communication system for communicating video game and karaoke software330US 5,489,103 AYugengaisha Adachi International · 1996