A63F 3/00697
Playing pieces
Official title: {Playing pieces}
A63F3/00697 (Playing pieces) appears on 706 US grants and 802 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 706
- Published applications
- 802
- Assignees
- 203
- Inventors
- 1,358
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2023 | 16 | 37 |
| 2024 | 17 | 37 |
| 2025 | 17 | 28 |
| 2026 | 11 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A63F 2003/00716Connectable or stackable playing pieces or parts thereofIndexing code185
- A63F 2003/00747Playing pieces with particular shapesIndexing code181
- A63F 2003/00845Additional features of playing piecesIndexing code111
- A63F 2003/007Design of classical playing piecesIndexing code110
- A63F 2003/00826Changeable playing piecesIndexing code66
- A63F 2003/00832With groups of playing pieces, each group having its own characteristicIndexing code62
- A63F 2003/00867The playing piece having two characteristicsIndexing code33
- A63F 2003/00886TransparentIndexing code28
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- System and method for demonstrating operations at a distribution center17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273386 A1Target Brands, Inc.
- Strategy board game10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263906 A1
- Board game toy and component thereof20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241270 A1Bandai Co., Ltd.
- Word game and method of play6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224972 A1U.S.A.Opoly, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for playing178US 4,666,160 A1987
- Vectorial and Mancala-like games, apparatus and methods147US 4,569,526 AGamma-Delta Games, Inc. · 1986
- Playing cards with separable components138US 7,510,194 B2Bally Gaming, Inc. · 2009
- Game apparatus127US 4,337,948 AMarvin Glass & Associates · 1982
- Interactive gaming toy72US 9,446,319 B2MQ Gaming, LLC · 2016