G07F 17/32
Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles: for games, toys, sports, or amusements
Official title: for games, toys, sports, or amusements
G07F17/32 (Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles: for games, toys, sports, or amusements) appears on 21,618 US grants and 30,974 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
- 21,618
- Published applications
- 30,974
- Assignees
- 3,250
- Inventors
- 17,458
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 961 | 1293 |
| 2025 | 896 | 1259 |
| 2026 | 535 | 984 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G07F 17/3202Hardware aspects of a gaming system10,604
- G07F 17/3244Payment aspects of a gaming system9,912
- G07F 17/326Game play aspects of gaming systems8,459
- G07F 17/3225Data transfer within a gaming system7,909
- G07F 17/3286Type of games7,084
- G07F 17/34Depending on the stopping of moving members in a mechanical slot machine4,147
- G07F 17/3241Security aspects of a gaming system2,320
- G07F 17/38Ball games125
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By later US patents
- Method for operating networked gaming devices1,948US 5,655,961 AAcres Gaming Incorporated · 1997
- Distributed electronic entertainment method and apparatus1,916US 7,657,910 B1E-Cast, Inc. · 2010
- Prize redemption system for games1,665US 5,816,918 ARLT Acquistion, Inc. · 1998
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