G07F 17/326
Game play aspects of gaming systems
Official title: {Game play aspects of gaming systems}
G07F17/326 (Game play aspects of gaming systems) appears on 8,459 US grants and 12,278 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 12,278
- Assignees
- 1,263
- Inventors
- 6,876
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 382 | 548 |
| 2026 | 229 | 407 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Shared celebrations in a shared virtual gaming environment6 Oct 2026US 12,755,602 B2Igt
- Historical event based determinations6 Oct 2026US 12,755,604 B2Igt
- Cross-channel wagering game tournaments6 Oct 2026US 12,755,605 B2Igt
- Augmented reality reward game6 Oct 2026US 12,755,608 B2Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
- Gaming system and method with a targeted persistent element feature6 Oct 2026US 12,755,609 B2LNW Gaming, Inc.
- Foldable screen support mechanism for gaming machines8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311544 A1Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
- Royal 13 Casino Table Game8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311545 A1
- Trading and selling celebrity game outcomes8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311562 A1Igt
- Gaming machine and methods for operating gaming machines to provide skill-based wagering games to players8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311563 A1Konami Gaming, Inc.
- Game award enhancement for adjacent game symbols8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311564 A1Igt
Most cited
By later US patents
- Prize redemption system for games1,665US 5,816,918 ARLT Acquistion, Inc. · 1998
- Concurrent game network1,516US 4,856,787 AYuri Itkis · 1989
- Method of playing game and gaming games with an additional payout indicator1,482US 5,848,932 AAnchor Gaming · 1998
- Method and system for adapting gaming devices to playing preferences1,446US 6,110,041 AWalker Digital, LLC · 2000
- Interactive real-time network gaming system1,357US 5,762,552 AVt Tech Corp. · 1998