B25C
Hand-held nailing or stapling tools
Official title: Hand-held nailing or stapling tools; manually operated portable stapling tools (for shoemaking a43d)
B25C (Hand-held nailing or stapling tools) appears on 4,491 US grants and 3,789 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25C- Granted patents
- 4,491
- Published applications
- 3,789
- Assignees
- 840
- Inventors
- 4,363
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 53 | 0 |
| 1977 | 57 | 0 |
| 1978 | 50 | 0 |
| 1979 | 32 | 0 |
| 1980 | 59 | 0 |
| 1981 | 41 | 0 |
| 1982 | 37 | 0 |
| 1983 | 43 | 0 |
| 1984 | 45 | 0 |
| 1985 | 57 | 0 |
| 1986 | 64 | 0 |
| 1987 | 56 | 0 |
| 1988 | 55 | 0 |
| 1989 | 69 | 0 |
| 1990 | 50 | 0 |
| 1991 | 59 | 0 |
| 1992 | 48 | 0 |
| 1993 | 66 | 0 |
| 1994 | 52 | 0 |
| 1995 | 43 | 0 |
| 1996 | 63 | 0 |
| 1997 | 95 | 0 |
| 1998 | 84 | 0 |
| 1999 | 88 | 0 |
| 2000 | 111 | 0 |
| 2001 | 85 | 25 |
| 2002 | 89 | 85 |
| 2003 | 109 | 137 |
| 2004 | 123 | 144 |
| 2005 | 131 | 204 |
| 2006 | 160 | 215 |
| 2007 | 118 | 178 |
| 2008 | 107 | 209 |
| 2009 | 109 | 185 |
| 2010 | 115 | 167 |
| 2011 | 122 | 160 |
| 2012 | 111 | 150 |
| 2013 | 125 | 120 |
| 2014 | 95 | 109 |
| 2015 | 66 | 111 |
| 2016 | 65 | 89 |
| 2017 | 102 | 143 |
| 2018 | 70 | 137 |
| 2019 | 93 | 156 |
| 2020 | 155 | 159 |
| 2021 | 143 | 177 |
| 2022 | 118 | 136 |
| 2023 | 140 | 164 |
| 2024 | 155 | 158 |
| 2025 | 171 | 151 |
| 2026 | 137 | 120 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
- B25C 1/00Hand-held nailing tools2,915
- B25C 5/00Manually operated portable stapling tools1,301
- B25C 11/00Nail, spike, and staple extractors397
- B25C 7/00Accessories for nailing or stapling tools355
- B25C 3/00Portable devices for holding and guiding nails186
- B25C 9/00Nail punches13
- B25C 13/00Nail straightening devices6
Recent patents
- Work machine6 Oct 2026US 12,752,408 B2Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Electric driving tool6 Oct 2026US 12,752,409 B2Makita Corporation
- Spring-loaded nail gun6 Oct 2026US 12,752,410 B2Zhejiang Prulde Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.
- Cap feeding device and cap nailer having the same29 Sep 2026US 12,746,651 B2Basso Industry Corp.
- Driver29 Sep 2026US 12,746,652 B2Koki Holdings Co., Ltd.
- Powered fastener driver8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307227 A1Techtronic Cordless GP
- Gas generator for a tool, usage of the gas generator and a tool with a gas generator8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308772 A1Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
- Striker lifting mechanism of a power tool and a safety firing control method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295788 A1Apach Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Powered fastener driver1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295789 A1Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
- Method for controlling a fastener driving tool1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295790 A1Zhejiang Prulde Electric Appliance Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Surgical stapler3,038US 5,129,570 AEthicon, Inc. · 1992
- Robotically-controlled cable-based surgical end effectors2,844US 8,800,838 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2014
- Surgical stapler cartridge lockout device2,658US 4,892,244 AEthicon, Inc. · 1990
- Surgical stapler2,293US 6,131,789 AEthicon, Inc. · 2000
- Surgical stapler2,245US 5,275,323 AEthicon, Inc. · 1994