A61F 2002/9155
Adjacent bands being connected to each other
Official title: {Adjacent bands being connected to each other}
A61F2002/9155 (Adjacent bands being connected to each other) appears on 2,426 US grants and 3,109 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 2,426
- Published applications
- 3,109
- Assignees
- 592
- Inventors
- 2,674
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 3 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 14 | 0 |
| 1998 | 42 | 0 |
| 1999 | 52 | 0 |
| 2000 | 66 | 0 |
| 2001 | 78 | 48 |
| 2002 | 83 | 147 |
| 2003 | 105 | 151 |
| 2004 | 77 | 197 |
| 2005 | 70 | 151 |
| 2006 | 62 | 194 |
| 2007 | 70 | 208 |
| 2008 | 50 | 179 |
| 2009 | 68 | 143 |
| 2010 | 123 | 140 |
| 2011 | 126 | 130 |
| 2012 | 119 | 139 |
| 2013 | 126 | 122 |
| 2014 | 144 | 152 |
| 2015 | 107 | 106 |
| 2016 | 123 | 129 |
| 2017 | 109 | 135 |
| 2018 | 95 | 106 |
| 2019 | 111 | 89 |
| 2020 | 98 | 103 |
| 2021 | 73 | 59 |
| 2022 | 55 | 66 |
| 2023 | 41 | 63 |
| 2024 | 55 | 63 |
| 2025 | 35 | 53 |
| 2026 | 32 | 36 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61F 2002/91558Connected peak to peakIndexing code1,417
- A61F 2002/91575Connected peak to troughIndexing code1,026
- A61F 2002/91583By a bridge, whereby at least one of its ends is connectedIndexing code370
- A61F 2002/91566Connected trough to troughIndexing code335
- A61F 2002/91591Locking connectorsIndexing code210
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