B25C 5/00
Manually operated portable stapling tools
Official title: Manually operated portable stapling tools; Hand-held power-operated stapling tools ({clip clamping hand tools B25B27/146;} details or components, e.g. casings, bodies, of portable power-driven tools not particularly related to the operation performed B25F5/00; stapling machines B27F7/17); Staple feeding devices therefor (staples F16B15/00)
B25C5/00 (Manually operated portable stapling tools) appears on 1,301 US grants and 1,101 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25C- Granted patents
- 1,301
- Published applications
- 1,101
- Assignees
- 357
- Inventors
- 1,563
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 15 | 0 |
| 1977 | 9 | 0 |
| 1978 | 10 | 0 |
| 1979 | 11 | 0 |
| 1980 | 23 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 11 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 25 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 26 | 0 |
| 2000 | 33 | 0 |
| 2001 | 23 | 5 |
| 2002 | 22 | 14 |
| 2003 | 27 | 49 |
| 2004 | 32 | 40 |
| 2005 | 46 | 54 |
| 2006 | 44 | 69 |
| 2007 | 34 | 54 |
| 2008 | 26 | 78 |
| 2009 | 36 | 66 |
| 2010 | 40 | 46 |
| 2011 | 38 | 39 |
| 2012 | 37 | 52 |
| 2013 | 33 | 55 |
| 2014 | 25 | 44 |
| 2015 | 20 | 32 |
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| 2017 | 50 | 54 |
| 2018 | 22 | 46 |
| 2019 | 28 | 52 |
| 2020 | 54 | 55 |
| 2021 | 52 | 49 |
| 2022 | 34 | 28 |
| 2023 | 33 | 30 |
| 2024 | 30 | 28 |
| 2025 | 38 | 30 |
| 2026 | 24 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Cap feeding device and cap nailer having the same29 Sep 2026US 12,746,651 B2Basso Industry Corp.
- Router8 Sep 2026US 12,728,508 B2Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
- High efficiency torsion spring tacker8 Sep 2026US 12,728,509 B2WorkTools, Inc.
- Fastener cap driving tool with self-reversing lead screw cap feeder8 Sep 2026US 12,728,510 B2Kyocera Senco Industrial Tools, Inc.
- Magnetically detachable stapler device1 Sep 2026US 12,722,266 B2
- Powered fastener driver8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307227 A1Techtronic Cordless GP
- Powered fastener driver1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295793 A1Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
- Staple-guiding unit and staple gun having the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295794 A1Pao Shen Enterprises Co., Ltd.
- High efficiency torsion spring tacker24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284851 A1WorkTools, Inc.
- Driving tool24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284852 A1Makita Corporation
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