A61F 2002/4668
For measuring angles
Official title: {for measuring angles}
A61F2002/4668 (For measuring angles) appears on 532 US grants and 708 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 708
- Assignees
- 161
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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