A61F 2002/30492
Using a locking pin
Official title: {using a locking pin}
A61F2002/30492 (Using a locking pin) appears on 747 US grants and 896 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 237
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 10 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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