A61F 2002/30556
For adjusting thickness
Official title: {for adjusting thickness}
A61F2002/30556 (For adjusting thickness) appears on 1,632 US grants and 1,958 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 1,632
- Published applications
- 1,958
- Assignees
- 332
- Inventors
- 1,265
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 1 |
| 2002 | 14 | 18 |
| 2003 | 8 | 14 |
| 2004 | 18 | 38 |
| 2005 | 8 | 34 |
| 2006 | 12 | 29 |
| 2007 | 8 | 20 |
| 2008 | 7 | 23 |
| 2009 | 6 | 25 |
| 2010 | 20 | 17 |
| 2011 | 25 | 23 |
| 2012 | 32 | 59 |
| 2013 | 42 | 57 |
| 2014 | 50 | 102 |
| 2015 | 55 | 84 |
| 2016 | 92 | 117 |
| 2017 | 101 | 119 |
| 2018 | 114 | 136 |
| 2019 | 109 | 142 |
| 2020 | 121 | 114 |
| 2021 | 114 | 137 |
| 2022 | 140 | 172 |
| 2023 | 136 | 141 |
| 2024 | 140 | 128 |
| 2025 | 156 | 121 |
| 2026 | 80 | 87 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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