A63F 3/0423
Word games
Official title: {Word games, e.g. scrabble (electric A63F3/0421; two-dimensional puzzles with rotating rings or discs A63F9/0811, A63F9/0819)}
A63F3/0423 (Word games) appears on 405 US grants and 374 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 405
- Published applications
- 374
- Assignees
- 97
- Inventors
- 738
- Latest grant
- 21 Apr 2026
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| 2022 | 6 | 7 |
| 2023 | 5 | 8 |
| 2024 | 2 | 9 |
| 2025 | 3 | 7 |
| 2026 | 1 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Word board game apparatus and method21 Apr 2026US 12,605,617 B2
- Gameplay with interactive user-manipulatable components14 Oct 2025US 12,440,749 B1
- System and method for providing a dictionary-based electronic gaming system2 Sep 2025US 12,406,555 B2
- Lottery tickets having connected symbol set path feature6 May 2025US 12,290,759 B2IGT Global Solutions Corporation
- Gaming unit20 Aug 2024US 12,064,700 B2Yoli ApS
- System and method for board game16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199773 A1
- Phonetic game system28 May 2026US 2026/0145050 A1
- System and method to implement a lottery second chance game based on game tiles12 Feb 2026US 2026/0045142 A1Scientific Games, LLC
- Pooled-letter word puzzle with customizable difficulty1 Jan 2026US 2026/0000968 A1
- Group Bonding Tile-Based Apparatus for Structured Word Formation and Scoring11 Dec 2025US 2025/0375698 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronic game apparatus118US 5,129,654 ABrehn Corporation · 1992
- Rotating cube computer video games106US 6,062,978 AFour Star Software, Inc. · 2000
- Lottery ticket and word game played thereby103US 6,241,246 B1Oberthur Gaming Technologies, Inc. · 2001
- Educational treasure hunt game94US 6,234,803 B12001
- Crossword puzzle game and method of generating the same67US 5,566,942 A1996