B25B 23/108
The driving bit being a philips type bit, an allen type bit
Official title: {the driving bit being a Philips type bit, an Allen type bit or a socket}
B25B23/108 (The driving bit being a philips type bit, an allen type bit) appears on 158 US grants and 209 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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- Retention socket geometry variations79US 6,626,067 B1Snap-on Technologies, Inc. · 2003
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