A63F 3/0421
Electric word or number games
Official title: {Electric word or number games}
A63F3/0421 (Electric word or number games) appears on 82 US grants and 119 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 82
- Published applications
- 119
- Assignees
- 46
- Inventors
- 229
- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 2 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 4 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 5 |
| 2008 | 0 | 7 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 2 | 5 |
| 2011 | 0 | 5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 7 |
| 2014 | 3 | 7 |
| 2015 | 0 | 7 |
| 2016 | 2 | 12 |
| 2017 | 5 | 7 |
| 2018 | 3 | 7 |
| 2019 | 6 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 | 6 |
| 2021 | 1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 | 7 |
| 2024 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Word board game apparatus and method21 Apr 2026US 12,605,617 B2
- Use of semantic boards and semantic buttons for training and assisting the expression and understanding of language22 Jul 2025US 12,364,248 B2
- Systems and methods to enhance and develop new games and activities based on logic puzzles9 Jan 2024US 11,865,464 B2
- Method and apparatus for playing a word game17 Oct 2023US 11,786,805 B1Symbolics Inc.
- Use of semantic boards and semantic buttons for training and assisting the expression and understanding of language2 May 2023US 11,638,414 B2
- System and method to implement a lottery second chance game based on game tiles12 Feb 2026US 2026/0045142 A1Scientific Games, LLC
- Mathematical colored-numbered puzzle board game19 Jun 2025US 2025/0195989 A1
- Segmentation of images onto physically separable devices and reassembly for education, therapy, and entertainment5 Jun 2025US 2025/0182640 A1Tusi, LLC
- Word game with player-driven letter rearrangement27 Feb 2025US 2025/0065218 A1
- Mathematical colored-numbered puzzle board game16 Jan 2025US 2025/0018278 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic word puzzle game133US 5,921,864 AWalker Asset Management Limited Partnership · 1999
- Process and display with moveable images124US 5,494,445 A1996
- Rotating cube computer video games106US 6,062,978 AFour Star Software, Inc. · 2000
- Mathematical gameboard77US 4,182,515 A1980
- Word spelling and definition educational device69US 5,203,705 AFranklin Electronic Publishers, Incorporated · 1993