B25B 7/00

Pliers

Official title: Pliers; Other hand-held gripping tools with jaws on pivoted limbs; Details applicable generally to pivoted-limb hand tools (implements for fastening, connecting, or tensioning wire or strip B25B25/00; adapted for other fitting or separating purposes B25B27/00; for marking animals A01K11/00; dentists' forceps A61C3/00; bending wire eyes B21F1/06; hand-held metal-shearing or metal-cutting devices B23D29/00; hand cutting tools B26B; for punching or perforating B26F1/36; devices for securing ends of binding material in bundling machines B65B13/24; specially designed for watch-making or comparable work G04D1/00)

B25B7/00 (Pliers) appears on 1,823 US grants and 1,287 published applications in this corpus.

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Granted patents: 1,823
Published applications: 1,287
Assignees: 618
Inventors: 2,456
Latest grant: 6 Oct 2026

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B25B 7/00: granted patents and published applications per publication year
Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1976	19	0
1977	14	0
1978	19	0
1979	14	0
1980	24	0
1981	17	0
1982	9	0
1983	11	0
1984	20	0
1985	22	0
1986	27	0
1987	26	0
1988	33	0
1989	32	0
1990	29	0
1991	46	0
1992	42	0
1993	43	0
1994	42	0
1995	37	0
1996	40	0
1997	44	0
1998	41	0
1999	52	0
2000	55	0
2001	62	12
2002	48	29
2003	32	44
2004	45	54
2005	32	52
2006	49	52
2007	38	49
2008	38	48
2009	20	53
2010	38	47
2011	37	43
2012	36	56
2013	33	36
2014	33	52
2015	43	65
2016	49	62
2017	43	60
2018	50	64
2019	51	77
2020	33	51
2021	39	67
2022	49	51
2023	67	49
2024	41	47
2025	39	42
2026	20	25

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