A47G 21/023
Forks
Official title: {Forks; Forks with ejectors}
A47G21/023 (Forks) appears on 88 US grants and 127 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47G- Granted patents
- 88
- Published applications
- 127
- Assignees
- 40
- Inventors
- 162
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2003 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2006 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2013 | 4 | 2 |
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| 2015 | 2 | 7 |
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| 2017 | 6 | 9 |
| 2018 | 8 | 4 |
| 2019 | 3 | 16 |
| 2020 | 4 | 8 |
| 2021 | 9 | 16 |
| 2022 | 7 | 11 |
| 2023 | 7 | 13 |
| 2024 | 5 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 2 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Interactive foodware systems and methods to generate data for location and movement of utensil, and controller that instructs speaker to generate audio data based on location of the utensil29 Sep 2026US 12,750,613 B2Universal City Studios LLC
- Injection molded cutlery and method and system therefor28 Apr 2026US 12,611,061 B2Dart Container Corporation
- Eating utensil25 Nov 2025US 12,478,200 B2humangear, Inc.
- Disposable paper pulp fast food cutlery9 Sep 2025US 12,408,780 B2
- Utensil for mounting on a container and folding for minimizing storage space of the container and utensil combination1 Oct 2024US 12,102,243 B2Kitchen Concepts Unlimited LLC
- Cutlery with Integrated Structural Reinforcement18 Jun 2026US 2026/0165517 A1
- Injection molded cutlery method14 May 2026US 2026/0130530 A1Dart Container Corporation
- Injection molded cutlery7 May 2026US 2026/0123777 A1Dart Container Corporation
- Utensil26 Mar 2026US 2026/0083264 A1humangear, Inc.
- Disposable paper pulp fast food cutlery18 Dec 2025US 2025/0380829 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Eating utensils34US 6,105,259 AGerber Products Company · 2000
- Dynamic nutrition tracking utensils31US 9,146,147 B12015
- Foodware having visual sensory stimulating or sensing means27US 7,163,311 B22007
- Vessel having stimulating and sensing components26US 8,672,504 B22014
- Self-righting handheld utensil26US 9,668,598 B2Vartian Corp. · 2017