A61F 9/04
Eye-masks
Official title: Eye-masks {; Devices to be worn on the face, not intended for looking through; Eye-pads for sunbathing}
A61F9/04 (Eye-masks) appears on 1,149 US grants and 1,170 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61F- Granted patents
- 1,149
- Published applications
- 1,170
- Assignees
- 409
- Inventors
- 1,797
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Welding information providing apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,752,363 B2Otos Wing Co., Ltd.
- Eye mask and control method15 Sep 2026US 12,734,071 B2Shenzhen Rainslab Technology Co., Ltd
- Flexible sleeping headband-type speaker15 Sep 2026US 12,739,552 B1
- Metal detectable protective eyewear25 Aug 2026US 12,717,163 B2Radians, Inc.
- Systems and methods for functional adjustments of personal protective equipment11 Aug 2026US 12,707,185 B23M Innovative Properties Company
- Flexible welding helmet24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283851 A1Tecmen Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Head-worn optical protection device with lens clamp assembly24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283852 A1Ipg Photonics Corporation
- Welding helmet and auto-darkening filter therefor24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283853 A1
- System for minimizing risk of transmission of infection17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274133 A1James L. Orrington, II D.D.S., P.C.
- Sleep mask for people with insomnia10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263731 A1Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University
Most cited
By later US patents
- Attachment assembly for use on the human skin565US 4,890,608 AE. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc. · 1990
- Automatic liquid-crystal light shutter387US 4,491,390 A1985
- Arc welding monitoring system251US 6,242,711 B1AccuData, Inc. · 2001
- Data display on a welding screen228US 6,734,393 B1Fronius International GmbH · 2004
- Enhanced optical and perceptual digital eyewear215US 9,658,473 B2Percept Technologies Inc · 2017