A61F 2002/30462
Retained or tied with a rope, string, thread, wire or cable
Official title: {retained or tied with a rope, string, thread, wire or cable}
A61F2002/30462 (Retained or tied with a rope, string, thread, wire or cable) appears on 931 US grants and 1,169 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 931
- Published applications
- 1,169
- Assignees
- 283
- Inventors
- 1,027
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 14 | 13 |
| 2002 | 26 | 30 |
| 2003 | 21 | 34 |
| 2004 | 18 | 53 |
| 2005 | 14 | 90 |
| 2006 | 20 | 83 |
| 2007 | 24 | 64 |
| 2008 | 16 | 73 |
| 2009 | 31 | 61 |
| 2010 | 54 | 52 |
| 2011 | 52 | 54 |
| 2012 | 48 | 76 |
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| 2015 | 52 | 60 |
| 2016 | 54 | 34 |
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| 2018 | 41 | 39 |
| 2019 | 38 | 37 |
| 2020 | 35 | 37 |
| 2021 | 31 | 28 |
| 2022 | 20 | 30 |
| 2023 | 28 | 31 |
| 2024 | 21 | 21 |
| 2025 | 20 | 19 |
| 2026 | 17 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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