A42B 3/20
Face guards
Official title: Face guards, e.g. for ice hockey (A42B3/22 takes precedence)
A42B3/20 (Face guards) appears on 469 US grants and 548 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A42B- Granted patents
- 469
- Published applications
- 548
- Assignees
- 192
- Inventors
- 676
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 3 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 7 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 3 |
| 2002 | 9 | 2 |
| 2003 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 5 | 9 |
| 2005 | 7 | 7 |
| 2006 | 4 | 11 |
| 2007 | 3 | 12 |
| 2008 | 4 | 8 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13 |
| 2010 | 6 | 7 |
| 2011 | 8 | 13 |
| 2012 | 6 | 14 |
| 2013 | 7 | 19 |
| 2014 | 10 | 19 |
| 2015 | 11 | 26 |
| 2016 | 23 | 34 |
| 2017 | 22 | 48 |
| 2018 | 15 | 41 |
| 2019 | 39 | 46 |
| 2020 | 31 | 43 |
| 2021 | 26 | 36 |
| 2022 | 36 | 33 |
| 2023 | 34 | 29 |
| 2024 | 27 | 22 |
| 2025 | 28 | 34 |
| 2026 | 23 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents