A63F 3/00176
Boards having particular shapes
Official title: {Boards having particular shapes, e.g. hexagonal, triangular, circular, irregular}
A63F3/00176 (Boards having particular shapes) appears on 207 US grants and 187 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 207
- Published applications
- 187
- Assignees
- 42
- Inventors
- 394
- Latest grant
- 17 Feb 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 5 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 4 | 0 |
| 1999 | 3 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2 |
| 2002 | 11 | 10 |
| 2003 | 14 | 10 |
| 2004 | 11 | 9 |
| 2005 | 4 | 13 |
| 2006 | 3 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 | 7 |
| 2008 | 2 | 9 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 4 | 8 |
| 2011 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 3 | 6 |
| 2013 | 5 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 | 8 |
| 2015 | 3 | 6 |
| 2016 | 0 | 9 |
| 2017 | 1 | 7 |
| 2018 | 2 | 12 |
| 2019 | 3 | 14 |
| 2020 | 3 | 6 |
| 2021 | 4 | 3 |
| 2022 | 3 | 7 |
| 2023 | 2 | 10 |
| 2024 | 4 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A63F 2003/00195Hexagonal game boardIndexing code34
- A63F 2003/00208Circular game boardIndexing code32
- A63F 2003/00182Four-sided game boardIndexing code27
- A63F 2003/00179Triangular game boardIndexing code17
- A63F 2003/00201Octagonal game boardIndexing code12
- A63F 2003/00189Pentagonal game boardIndexing code4
- A63F 2003/00205Decagonal game boardIndexing code1
- A63F 2003/00211Elliptical game boardIndexing code1
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Most cited
By later US patents
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