A63G 7/00
Up-and-down hill tracks
Official title: Up-and-down hill tracks; Switchbacks
A63G7/00 (Up-and-down hill tracks) appears on 521 US grants and 577 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A63G- Granted patents
- 521
- Published applications
- 577
- Assignees
- 125
- Inventors
- 758
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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