A01K 31/18
Chicken coops or houses for baby chicks
Official title: Chicken coops or houses {for baby chicks}; Brooders {including auxiliary features, e.g. feeding, watering, demanuring, heating, ventilation (battery breeding cages A01K31/005)}
A01K31/18 (Chicken coops or houses for baby chicks) appears on 153 US grants and 179 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A01K- Granted patents
- 153
- Published applications
- 179
- Assignees
- 106
- Inventors
- 313
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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| 2026 | 7 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Lighting system for poultry16 Jun 2026US 12,653,162 B2Signify Holding B. V.
- Semirigid poultry and/or swine enclosure3 Mar 2026US 12,564,176 B2Perdue Foods LLC
- Rearing-keeping facility for rearing poultry animals, corresponding poultry animal house and use24 Feb 2026US 12,557,791 B2Big Dutchman International GmbH
- Illumination system10 Feb 2026US 12,543,708 B2Signify Holding B. V.
- Modular and collapsible housing system for young poultry20 Jan 2026US 12,527,301 B2RentACoop LLC
- Multi-channel walk-in floor-reared poultry growth performance measurement system and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305578 A1Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture Science and Technology
- A dark brooder10 Sep 2026US 2026/0262611 A1
- Semirigid poultry and/or swine enclosure3 Sep 2026US 2026/0256119 A1Perdue Foods LLC
- An illumination system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0239514 A1Signify Holding B. V.
- Poultry house and method of controlling air circulation in poultry house26 Feb 2026US 2026/0053109 A1Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electrostatic reduction system for reducing airborne dust and microorganisms77US 6,126,722 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture · 2000
- Brooder lamp fixture with power cord suspended enclosure35US 6,234,653 B12001
- Lighting fixture for a poultry house31US 8,657,463 B22014
- Automated animal house30US 6,810,832 B2Kairos, L.L.C. · 2004
- Automated light-sensitive configurable animal door29US 11,533,891 B12022