A61F 2002/30495
Using a locking ring
Official title: {using a locking ring}
A61F2002/30495 (Using a locking ring) appears on 733 US grants and 775 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 733
- Published applications
- 775
- Assignees
- 218
- Inventors
- 1,004
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 9 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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