A61F 2250/0036
Differing in thickness
Official title: differing in thickness
A61F2250/0036 (Differing in thickness) appears on 1,084 US grants and 1,395 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 1,084
- Published applications
- 1,395
- Assignees
- 447
- Inventors
- 1,932
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 3 | 0 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 8 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 6 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 9 | 0 |
| 1997 | 13 | 0 |
| 1998 | 19 | 0 |
| 1999 | 10 | 0 |
| 2000 | 17 | 0 |
| 2001 | 29 | 15 |
| 2002 | 22 | 53 |
| 2003 | 34 | 45 |
| 2004 | 22 | 55 |
| 2005 | 29 | 52 |
| 2006 | 30 | 52 |
| 2007 | 16 | 45 |
| 2008 | 18 | 48 |
| 2009 | 30 | 49 |
| 2010 | 37 | 57 |
| 2011 | 34 | 45 |
| 2012 | 31 | 62 |
| 2013 | 41 | 44 |
| 2014 | 34 | 52 |
| 2015 | 35 | 50 |
| 2016 | 57 | 62 |
| 2017 | 41 | 65 |
| 2018 | 55 | 63 |
| 2019 | 64 | 81 |
| 2020 | 71 | 83 |
| 2021 | 58 | 55 |
| 2022 | 47 | 63 |
| 2023 | 49 | 55 |
| 2024 | 32 | 50 |
| 2025 | 40 | 59 |
| 2026 | 21 | 35 |
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