A01K 11/002
Pliers specially adapted for fixing ear-tags to ears
Official title: {Pliers specially adapted for fixing ear-tags to ears}
A01K11/002 (Pliers specially adapted for fixing ear-tags to ears) appears on 72 US grants and 55 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01K- Granted patents
- 72
- Published applications
- 55
- Assignees
- 40
- Inventors
- 129
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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| 2026 | 1 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Animal tag12 May 2026US 12,622,414 B2Cambridge Animal Technologies Ltd
- System and method for identifying, tracking, and monitoring behaviors of laboratory animals within an animal cage23 Dec 2025US 12,501,881 B2RapID Lab, Inc.
- Gripper for manipulating a device for identifying an animal and/or removing tissue from an animal comprising holding means with remote actuation2 Sep 2025US 12,402,599 B2Allflex Europe
- Animal identification system and related methods13 May 2025US 12,295,347 B2RapID Lab, Inc.
- Animal identification system26 Mar 2024US 11,937,571 B2RapID Lab, Inc.
- Animal tagging system for simultaneous human and computer-vision-based animal identification11 Jun 2026US 2026/0157343 A1
- Applicator for animal identification tags21 May 2026US 2026/0137058 A1Shearwell Data Limited
- Applicator for animal identification tag16 Apr 2026US 2026/0101870 A1Shearwell Data Limited
- System and method for identifying, tracking, & monitoring behaviors of laboratory animals within an animal cage19 Mar 2026US 2026/0076343 A1RapID Lab, Inc.
- Animal identification system and related methods24 Jul 2025US 2025/0234839 A1RapID Lab, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Ear tag applicator440US 6,235,036 B12001
- Tongs, in particular for mounting ear-buttons on animals54US 4,120,303 ACooper France S. A. · 1978
- Power-driven applicator for tagging livestock54US 4,943,294 AY-Tex Corporation · 1990
- Animal ear tag assembly and component locking member54US 6,145,225 A2000
- Ear tag applicator49US 5,141,514 AAllflex New Zealand Limited · 1992