A
Human necessities
A (Human necessities) appears on 1,558,754 US grants and 1,795,555 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A- Granted patents
- 1,558,754
- Published applications
- 1,795,555
- Assignees
- 273,222
- Inventors
- 1,818,597
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 10427 | 0 |
| 1977 | 9917 | 0 |
| 1978 | 10089 | 0 |
| 1979 | 8080 | 0 |
| 1980 | 10660 | 0 |
| 1981 | 10805 | 0 |
| 1982 | 9535 | 0 |
| 1983 | 8637 | 0 |
| 1984 | 10372 | 0 |
| 1985 | 11476 | 0 |
| 1986 | 12071 | 0 |
| 1987 | 13822 | 0 |
| 1988 | 13407 | 0 |
| 1989 | 17451 | 0 |
| 1990 | 16901 | 0 |
| 1991 | 18096 | 0 |
| 1992 | 18188 | 0 |
| 1993 | 17818 | 0 |
| 1994 | 19432 | 0 |
| 1995 | 19810 | 0 |
| 1996 | 21771 | 0 |
| 1997 | 24113 | 0 |
| 1998 | 30358 | 0 |
| 1999 | 31480 | 0 |
| 2000 | 30618 | 0 |
| 2001 | 31009 | 9463 |
| 2002 | 30941 | 37117 |
| 2003 | 30988 | 49199 |
| 2004 | 25855 | 55133 |
| 2005 | 22045 | 57636 |
| 2006 | 25992 | 57247 |
| 2007 | 23637 | 57712 |
| 2008 | 22371 | 61680 |
| 2009 | 24044 | 63681 |
| 2010 | 34657 | 68236 |
| 2011 | 36149 | 65940 |
| 2012 | 42202 | 66194 |
| 2013 | 48218 | 68272 |
| 2014 | 52582 | 77216 |
| 2015 | 52351 | 76614 |
| 2016 | 53500 | 79691 |
| 2017 | 57732 | 81357 |
| 2018 | 56959 | 81667 |
| 2019 | 66221 | 86839 |
| 2020 | 66421 | 89494 |
| 2021 | 62232 | 91370 |
| 2022 | 60516 | 92150 |
| 2023 | 58032 | 89232 |
| 2024 | 61738 | 90313 |
| 2025 | 62492 | 80881 |
| 2026 | 44536 | 61221 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Classes
Granted patents
Recent patents
- System and method for reducing or preventing plugging of an agricultural implement6 Oct 2026US 12,751,343 B2CNH Industrial America LLC
- Agricultural implements having foldable marker assemblies6 Oct 2026US 12,751,344 B2AGCO Corporation
- Automatic traveling method, automatic traveling system, and automatic traveling program6 Oct 2026US 12,751,345 B2Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to generate a turn path for a vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,751,346 B2Deere & Company
- Working vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,751,347 B2Kubota Corporation
- Customizable garden tool8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305509 A1
- Thinning elements or scourges for thinning machines and related thinning machine8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305510 A1
- Removably mounted plow for elongated tubular materials8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305511 A1Roberts Welding & Fabricating Ltd.
- Systems and methods for determining a center pivot point of a circular path based on points passed through by a vehicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305512 A1AGCO International GmbH
- Systems and methods for determining a center pivot point of a circular path based on a preliminary arc overlaying a digital image8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305513 A1AGCO International GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Mutant dwarfism gene of petunia5,133US 5,523,520 AGoldsmith Seeds, Inc. · 1996
- Electrosurgical hemostatic device4,011US 5,403,312 AEthicon, Inc. · 1995
- Robotic surgical tool with ultrasound cauterizing and cutting instrument3,961US 6,783,524 B2Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2004
- Expandable intraluminal graft, and method and apparatus for implanting an expandable intraluminal graft3,751US 4,733,665 AExpandable Grafts Partnership · 1988
- Articulation assembly for surgical instruments3,515US 5,704,534 AEthicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 1998