A63F 9/30
Capturing games for grabbing or trapping objects
Official title: Capturing games for grabbing or trapping objects, e.g. fishing games
A63F9/30 (Capturing games for grabbing or trapping objects) appears on 281 US grants and 199 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63F- Granted patents
- 281
- Published applications
- 199
- Assignees
- 97
- Inventors
- 389
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1993 | 8 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2 |
| 2002 | 9 | 3 |
| 2003 | 6 | 5 |
| 2004 | 3 | 5 |
| 2005 | 3 | 6 |
| 2006 | 5 | 3 |
| 2007 | 6 | 7 |
| 2008 | 2 | 7 |
| 2009 | 8 | 7 |
| 2010 | 11 | 3 |
| 2011 | 5 | 7 |
| 2012 | 5 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 | 4 |
| 2014 | 4 | 7 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2 |
| 2016 | 3 | 12 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13 |
| 2018 | 6 | 12 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2 |
| 2020 | 4 | 12 |
| 2021 | 6 | 7 |
| 2022 | 8 | 6 |
| 2023 | 3 | 6 |
| 2024 | 4 | 11 |
| 2025 | 9 | 24 |
| 2026 | 7 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Grip-Adjustable Claw Unit of a Claw Machine1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295380 A1Feiloli Electronic Co., Ltd.
- Collecting Game24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284515 A1
- Grabber machine with parameter adjustment function27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249169 A1Paokai Electronic Enterprise Co., Ltd.
- Prize acquisition game device20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241273 A1Sega Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Winner every time crane game apparatus and method94US 5,397,134 AAdvanced Games & Engineering, Inc. · 1995
- Crane game machine76US 5,271,628 AKabushiki Kaisha Universal · 1993
- Apparatus and method for crane game claw control65US 6,283,475 B1Smart Industries Corporation · 2001
- Skill crane cabinet63US 5,549,372 A1996
- Crane game including vacuum and rotary table59US 5,855,374 A1999