A61F 2002/30558
Force-limiting means
Official title: {Force-limiting means}
A61F2002/30558 (Force-limiting means) appears on 173 US grants and 192 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 173
- Published applications
- 192
- Assignees
- 41
- Inventors
- 209
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 4 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2007 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 6 |
| 2010 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 25 |
| 2013 | 6 | 5 |
| 2014 | 16 | 19 |
| 2015 | 7 | 10 |
| 2016 | 16 | 15 |
| 2017 | 11 | 16 |
| 2018 | 14 | 16 |
| 2019 | 16 | 9 |
| 2020 | 18 | 9 |
| 2021 | 12 | 11 |
| 2022 | 8 | 10 |
| 2023 | 7 | 8 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7 |
| 2025 | 10 | 10 |
| 2026 | 6 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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