A61F 2002/30159
Concave polygonal shapes
Official title: {Concave polygonal shapes}
A61F2002/30159 (Concave polygonal shapes) appears on 1,553 US grants and 1,785 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 1,553
- Published applications
- 1,785
- Assignees
- 502
- Inventors
- 1,987
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 58 | 59 |
| 2026 | 40 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61F 2002/30179X-shapedIndexing code470
- A61F 2002/30166H-shaped or i-shapedIndexing code341
- A61F 2002/30171Rosette- or star-shapedIndexing code259
- A61F 2002/30176V-shapedIndexing code207
- A61F 2002/30172T-shapedIndexing code202
- A61F 2002/30168L-shapedIndexing code129
- A61F 2002/30181Y-shapedIndexing code107
- A61F 2002/30169Pi-shapedIndexing code88
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Most cited
By later US patents
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