A61F 2013/49052
Having a specific direction of stretchability
Official title: {having a specific direction of stretchability}
A61F2013/49052 (Having a specific direction of stretchability) appears on 40 US grants and 46 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 46
- Assignees
- 12
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- A61F 2013/49057Being stretchable in both longitudinal and transversal directionIndexing code23
- A61F 2013/49053Being stretchable in the longitudinal direction or machine direction, i.e. longitudinalIndexing code11
- A61F 2013/49055Being stretchable in transversal direction or cross machine directionIndexing code7
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Absorbent article containing extensible zones225US 5,846,232 AKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. · 1998
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