A63F 2250/24
Miscellaneous game characteristics: with a lock
Official title: with a lock, e.g. for a puzzle
A63F2250/24 (Miscellaneous game characteristics: with a lock) appears on 45 US grants and 38 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 45
- Published applications
- 38
- Assignees
- 21
- Inventors
- 72
- Latest grant
- 2 Dec 2025
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| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Lock device for game machine2 Dec 2025US 12,485,358 B2Paokai Electronic Enterprise Co., Ltd.
- Pet mind toy27 May 2025US 12,310,331 B2
- Management system and management method for packages of shuffled playing cards4 Mar 2025US 12,239,916 B2Angel Group Co., Ltd.
- Puzzle box25 Feb 2025US 12,233,348 B2
- Game device and system17 Dec 2024US 12,168,183 B2Cornia Productions, Inc.
- Puzzle cube with internal secret compartment16 Apr 2026US 2026/0102692 A1Mvented Srls
- Puzzle box24 Jul 2025US 2025/0235776 A1
- Lock device for game machine1 May 2025US 2025/0135361 A1PAOKAl ELECTRONIC ENTERPRISE CO., LTD.
- Puzzle box20 Jun 2024US 2024/0198210 A1
- Game device and system1 Feb 2024US 2024/0033609 A1Cornia Productions, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Gaming method and apparatus including a simulation of a combination safe388US 5,919,088 ACasino Data Systems · 1999
- Back box latch for pinball games128US 5,110,120 AWilliams Electronics Games, Inc. · 1992
- Puzzle box with hand tool17US 5,419,558 A1995
- Management system and management method for packages of shuffled playing cards15US 10,675,530 B2Angel Playing Cards Co., Ltd. · 2020
- Educational toy for developing manual dexterity15US 4,457,722 A1984