A63F 3/00634
Sliding connections
Official title: {Sliding connections, e.g. playing pieces sliding in a groove}
A63F3/00634 (Sliding connections) appears on 79 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 79
- Published applications
- 33
- Assignees
- 24
- Inventors
- 123
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Golf putting apparatus and board game25 Aug 2026US 12,714,926 B2
- Tetra-link chess26 May 2026US 12,636,573 B1Dongguan Hongyu Plastic Co., Ltd.
- Klotski chess30 Sep 2025US 12,427,399 B2Fs Giiker Technology Co., Ltd.
- Physical-virtual game board and content delivery platform3 Dec 2024US 12,157,064 B1
- Spelling game comprising removable tokens positioned on a track29 Aug 2023US 11,738,256 B2
- Articulated gameboard23 Jul 2026US 2026/0208031 A1
- Tetra-link chess28 May 2026US 2026/0145051 A1Dongguan Hongyu Plastic Co., Ltd.
- Golf Putting Apparatus and Board Game11 Sep 2025US 2025/0281809 A1
- Puzzle board and a set of accompanying puzzle pieces and blocking pieces6 Mar 2025US 2025/0073566 A1Smart N.V.
- Tracking playing cards during game play using plastic sleeves with rfid tags9 Jan 2025US 2025/0010171 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Piece-stacking game device utilizing magnetic forces37US 4,462,596 A1984
- Educational toy with path creating tiles for a vehicle34US 4,504,243 AGordon Barlow Design · 1985
- Game board apparatus30US 4,032,151 A1977
- Horse racing games with board, pieces, cards and dice30US 5,437,459 A1995
- Strategic pattern building board game with ejecting feature29US 7,810,814 B1Hasbro, Inc. · 2010