A61C 15/046
Flossing tools
Official title: {Flossing tools}
A61C15/046 (Flossing tools) appears on 631 US grants and 598 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61C- Granted patents
- 631
- Published applications
- 598
- Assignees
- 159
- Inventors
- 1,031
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 17 | 37 |
| 2025 | 20 | 17 |
| 2026 | 16 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Dental floss holder and dispenser6 Oct 2026US 12,751,803 B2
- Dental cleaning device6 Oct 2026US 12,751,804 B2Slate Dental, Inc.
- Combined toothbrush, dental floss dispenser, and flossing device22 Sep 2026US 12,740,640 B1
- Biodegradable dental flossing device1 Sep 2026US 12,721,707 B2
- Dental floss25 Aug 2026US 12,714,546 B2Sunstar Americas, Inc.
- Reusable dental flosser1 Oct 2026US 2026/0294600 A1Flossyn LLC
- Method for stringing a dental floss device and dental floss device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263198 A1welumo UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
- Floss Tape, Floss Roll, and Floss Pick30 Jul 2026US 2026/0215898 A1Celanese Xingda Filaments Co., Ltd
- Hybrid Dental Device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199066 A1Sacks Holdings, Inc.
- Water flosser with rotating manifolds25 Jun 2026US 2026/0174534 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Integrated oral hygiene system214US 4,880,382 ALes Produits Associes LPA SA · 1989
- Brush arrangement and toothbrush with brush arrangement210US 6,363,565 B1Braun GmbH · 2002
- Dental flossing tool188US 4,655,233 A1987
- Dental apparatus for flossing teeth175US 5,067,503 A1991
- Dental flosser units and method of making same169US 5,305,768 AProduct Development (Z.G.S.) Ltd. · 1994