A63F 7/025
Pinball games
Official title: {Pinball games, e.g. flipper games}
A63F7/025 (Pinball games) appears on 283 US grants and 109 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 283
- Published applications
- 109
- Assignees
- 88
- Inventors
- 338
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 6 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Ball goal-in game machine25 Aug 2026US 12,714,933 B2KOMUSE Co., Ltd.
- Pinball machines28 Jul 2026US 12,691,366 B2University of Cincinnati
- Rotating target and ramp assembly for a pinball machine28 Jul 2026US 12,691,367 B1Stern Pinball, Inc.
- Collapsible ramp for an amusement game device30 Jun 2026US 12,667,774 B1Stern Pinball, Inc.
- Electromagnetic newton ball and ball diverter assembly for a pinball machine21 Apr 2026US 12,605,620 B1Stern Pinball, Inc.
- Arcade machine1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295375 A1Paokai Electronic Enterprise Co., Ltd.
- Legacy pinball machine wifi retrofit device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295376 A1Warped Pinball LLC
- Persistent state gaming device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295405 A1Stern Pinball, Inc.
- Miniature Optical Interruption Sensor Assembly24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284512 A1Turner Logic, LLC
- Virtual pinball control10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263912 A1Cleveland Software Design, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of playing game and gaming device with at least one additional payout indicator962US 5,882,261 AAnchor Gaming · 1999
- Gaming machine with skill feature630US 5,342,049 A1994
- Video pinball machine controller having an optical accelerometer for detecting slide and tilt227US 5,611,731 AThrustmaster, Inc. · 1997
- Amusement game with pinball type playfield and virtual video images184US 6,036,188 AWilliams Electronic Games, Inc. · 2000
- Holographic display for pinball games147US 5,316,303 AWilliams Electronics Games, Inc. · 1994