B08B 9/043
Moved by externally powered mechanical linkage
Official title: moved by externally powered mechanical linkage, e.g. pushed or drawn through the pipes
B08B9/043 (Moved by externally powered mechanical linkage) appears on 1,053 US grants and 971 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B08B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 971
- Assignees
- 520
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- 1,727
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2023 | 61 | 60 |
| 2024 | 61 | 53 |
| 2025 | 56 | 43 |
| 2026 | 23 | 26 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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