A61F 2002/30014
Differing in elasticity, stiffness or compressibility
Official title: {differing in elasticity, stiffness or compressibility}
A61F2002/30014 (Differing in elasticity, stiffness or compressibility) appears on 862 US grants and 1,094 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 862
- Published applications
- 1,094
- Assignees
- 380
- Inventors
- 1,496
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 46 | 43 |
| 2025 | 29 | 35 |
| 2026 | 19 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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