A61F 2002/30481
Using a locking clip
Official title: {using a locking clip}
A61F2002/30481 (Using a locking clip) appears on 227 US grants and 273 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 227
- Published applications
- 273
- Assignees
- 88
- Inventors
- 348
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 5 | 6 |
| 2002 | 2 | 4 |
| 2003 | 5 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 | 11 |
| 2005 | 3 | 7 |
| 2006 | 5 | 6 |
| 2007 | 3 | 10 |
| 2008 | 1 | 12 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11 |
| 2010 | 5 | 13 |
| 2011 | 4 | 9 |
| 2012 | 10 | 17 |
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| 2014 | 11 | 23 |
| 2015 | 17 | 19 |
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| 2017 | 17 | 12 |
| 2018 | 7 | 11 |
| 2019 | 16 | 10 |
| 2020 | 8 | 13 |
| 2021 | 10 | 5 |
| 2022 | 10 | 9 |
| 2023 | 6 | 9 |
| 2024 | 7 | 13 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3 |
| 2026 | 5 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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