G07F 17/3255
Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes
Official title: {Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes, e.g. comps, gaming associated with a purchase, gaming funded by advertisements}
G07F17/3255 (Incentive, loyalty and/or promotion schemes) appears on 1,629 US grants and 2,295 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 20 | 8 |
| 2002 | 8 | 34 |
| 2003 | 17 | 65 |
| 2004 | 16 | 55 |
| 2005 | 27 | 58 |
| 2006 | 18 | 101 |
| 2007 | 11 | 101 |
| 2008 | 18 | 117 |
| 2009 | 32 | 62 |
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| 2011 | 50 | 74 |
| 2012 | 68 | 83 |
| 2013 | 115 | 115 |
| 2014 | 98 | 145 |
| 2015 | 91 | 107 |
| 2016 | 98 | 127 |
| 2017 | 124 | 135 |
| 2018 | 86 | 111 |
| 2019 | 120 | 120 |
| 2020 | 99 | 104 |
| 2021 | 98 | 125 |
| 2022 | 59 | 60 |
| 2023 | 90 | 88 |
| 2024 | 83 | 99 |
| 2025 | 58 | 90 |
| 2026 | 35 | 45 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for operating networked gaming devices1,948US 5,655,961 AAcres Gaming Incorporated · 1997
- Tissue acquisition arrangements and methods for surgical stapling devices1,498US 8,783,543 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2014
- Method and system for adapting gaming devices to playing preferences1,446US 6,110,041 AWalker Digital, LLC · 2000
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- Distributed gaming system1,099US 5,851,149 ATech Link International Entertainment Ltd. · 1998