A42B 3/0433
Detecting, signalling or lighting devices
Official title: {Detecting, signalling or lighting devices}
A42B3/0433 (Detecting, signalling or lighting devices) appears on 985 US grants and 1,162 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A42B- Granted patents
- 985
- Published applications
- 1,162
- Assignees
- 457
- Inventors
- 1,848
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 2 | 0 |
| 1988 | 6 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 7 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 10 | 0 |
| 1995 | 11 | 0 |
| 1996 | 10 | 0 |
| 1997 | 8 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 12 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 12 | 2 |
| 2002 | 11 | 12 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11 |
| 2004 | 14 | 13 |
| 2005 | 7 | 22 |
| 2006 | 15 | 20 |
| 2007 | 12 | 26 |
| 2008 | 7 | 17 |
| 2009 | 11 | 27 |
| 2010 | 17 | 24 |
| 2011 | 21 | 38 |
| 2012 | 24 | 48 |
| 2013 | 33 | 49 |
| 2014 | 25 | 40 |
| 2015 | 39 | 60 |
| 2016 | 44 | 70 |
| 2017 | 52 | 86 |
| 2018 | 59 | 93 |
| 2019 | 74 | 98 |
| 2020 | 73 | 78 |
| 2021 | 57 | 63 |
| 2022 | 70 | 61 |
| 2023 | 40 | 54 |
| 2024 | 63 | 57 |
| 2025 | 43 | 53 |
| 2026 | 37 | 40 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Protective apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0272096 A1New Wisdom Investment Limited
- Head protection device, protection system and head protection method27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248225 A1
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- Hardhat with lightpipe system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240274 A1Cygnus Safety Products LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sport monitoring system for determining airtime, speed, power absorbed and other factors such as drop distance559US 6,539,336 B1PhatRat Technologies, Inc. · 2003
- Shoes and garments employing one or more of accelerometers, wireless transmitters, processors, altimeters, to determine information such as speed to persons wearing the shoes or garments359US 7,457,724 B2NIKE, Inc. · 2008
- Systems and methods for determining performance data346US 7,092,846 B2PhatRat Technology, Inc. · 2006
- System and methods for determining performance data298US 6,959,259 B2PhatRat Technology, Inc. · 2005
- Sport monitoring apparatus for determining loft time, speed, power absorbed and other factors such as height272US 6,266,623 B1PhatRat Technology, Inc. · 2001