A63F 2007/345
Ball return mechanisms
Official title: {Ball return mechanisms; Ball delivery}
A63F2007/345 (Ball return mechanisms) appears on 71 US grants and 44 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 71
- Published applications
- 44
- Assignees
- 37
- Inventors
- 129
- Latest grant
- 7 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Marble racing game7 Jul 2026US 12,673,256 B2
- Toss game assembly and method therefor27 Jan 2026US 12,533,570 B1
- Game table21 Oct 2025US 12,447,396 B2SKEECH Games, LLC
- Target game system with ball return device3 Jun 2025US 12,318,702 B1
- Automated ball exchange and selection for roulette game cycle optimization25 Mar 2025US 12,257,516 B2Interblock D.O.O.
- Automated ball exchange and selection for roulette game cycle optimization8 Aug 2024US 2024/0261669 A1Interblock D.O.O.
- Marble racing game11 Jan 2024US 2024/0009551 A1
- Multi-ball pockets for roulette26 Oct 2023US 2023/0338824 A1Interblock D.O.O.
- Multi-ball-track roulette26 Oct 2023US 2023/0338825 A1Interblock D.D.
- Game table20 Jul 2023US 2023/0226437 A1SKEECH Games, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ball game machine with a roulette-type rotary disk and a display located in the central area therein176US 5,879,235 ASega Enterprises, Ltd. · 1999
- Computerized roulette playing apparatus for a single player176US 6,083,105 A2000
- Automated interactive roulette with progressive jackpot137US 5,588,650 A1996
- Roulette playing device132US 4,906,005 ASigma Enterprises, LLC · 1990
- Multiple path ball ramp for pinball games131US 5,120,058 AWilliams Electronics Games, Inc. · 1992