A61B 2017/088
Sliding fasteners
Official title: {Sliding fasteners}
A61B2017/088 (Sliding fasteners) appears on 86 US grants and 118 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 86
- Published applications
- 118
- Assignees
- 40
- Inventors
- 172
- Latest grant
- 3 Mar 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 1 | 10 |
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| 2007 | 2 | 6 |
| 2008 | 0 | 5 |
| 2009 | 5 | 6 |
| 2010 | 6 | 8 |
| 2011 | 5 | 4 |
| 2012 | 5 | 1 |
| 2013 | 4 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 | 5 |
| 2015 | 6 | 5 |
| 2016 | 6 | 13 |
| 2017 | 8 | 3 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4 |
| 2019 | 7 | 8 |
| 2020 | 7 | 6 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4 |
| 2022 | 4 | 5 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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