A46B 11/0041
Flexible or deformable reservoirs
Official title: {Flexible or deformable reservoirs, e.g. resilient bulbs, compressible tubes}
A46B11/0041 (Flexible or deformable reservoirs) appears on 332 US grants and 321 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A46B- Granted patents
- 332
- Published applications
- 321
- Assignees
- 116
- Inventors
- 588
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2003 | 4 | 4 |
| 2004 | 11 | 8 |
| 2005 | 5 | 15 |
| 2006 | 5 | 18 |
| 2007 | 9 | 17 |
| 2008 | 7 | 14 |
| 2009 | 15 | 15 |
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| 2012 | 10 | 18 |
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| 2017 | 10 | 24 |
| 2018 | 14 | 13 |
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| 2020 | 14 | 17 |
| 2021 | 10 | 17 |
| 2022 | 18 | 14 |
| 2023 | 9 | 15 |
| 2024 | 13 | 14 |
| 2025 | 4 | 5 |
| 2026 | 8 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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