A63F 2003/0428
Crosswords
Official title: {Crosswords}
A63F2003/0428 (Crosswords) appears on 88 US grants and 118 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 88
- Published applications
- 118
- Assignees
- 34
- Inventors
- 192
- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 0 |
| 2002 | 4 | 2 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 2 | 5 |
| 2007 | 1 | 5 |
| 2008 | 2 | 6 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 3 | 8 |
| 2011 | 2 | 6 |
| 2012 | 3 | 7 |
| 2013 | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | 1 | 12 |
| 2015 | 1 | 5 |
| 2016 | 1 | 9 |
| 2017 | 4 | 5 |
| 2018 | 5 | 8 |
| 2019 | 5 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 6 |
| 2024 | 1 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Word board game apparatus and method21 Apr 2026US 12,605,617 B2
- Gameplay with interactive user-manipulatable components14 Oct 2025US 12,440,749 B1
- Lottery tickets having connected symbol set path feature6 May 2025US 12,290,759 B2IGT Global Solutions Corporation
- Lottery ticket having crossword board with a bonus grid feature13 Feb 2024US 11,896,914 B2IGT Global Solutions Corporation
- Letter cubes31 Jan 2023US 11,565,192 B2
- System and method to implement a lottery second chance game based on game tiles12 Feb 2026US 2026/0045142 A1Scientific Games, LLC
- Pooled-letter word puzzle with customizable difficulty1 Jan 2026US 2026/0000968 A1
- Group Bonding Tile-Based Apparatus for Structured Word Formation and Scoring11 Dec 2025US 2025/0375698 A1
- Word game with player-driven letter rearrangement27 Feb 2025US 2025/0065218 A1
- Word puzzle game and tournament23 Jan 2025US 2025/0025781 A1NewYorkShowsOff
Most cited
By later US patents
- Rotating cube computer video games106US 6,062,978 AFour Star Software, Inc. · 2000
- Lottery ticket and word game played thereby103US 6,241,246 B1Oberthur Gaming Technologies, Inc. · 2001
- Crossword puzzle game and method of generating the same67US 5,566,942 A1996
- Mathematical board game53US 5,893,718 A1999
- Locking means for extendable baton41US 5,149,092 A1992