B26F

Perforating

Official title: PERFORATING; PUNCHING; CUTTING-OUT; STAMPING-OUT; SEVERING BY MEANS OTHER THAN CUTTING (marking-out, perforating or making buttonholes A41H25/00; shoemaking A43D; surgery A61B; punching metal B21D; drilling metal B23B; cutting of metal by applying heat locally, e.g. flame cutting, B23K; cutting by abrasive fluid jets B24C5/02; details common to machines for severing B26D; drilling wood B27C; drilling stone B28D; working of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29; making boxes, cartons, envelopes or bags, of paper or similarly worked materials, e.g. metal foil, B31B; of glass C03B; of leather C14B; of textile materials D06H; for light guides G02B6/25; of tickets G07B)

B26F (Perforating) appears on 5,790 US grants and 4,978 published applications in this corpus.

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10,580
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YearGranted patentsPublished applications
1976840
1977960
1978770
1979520
1980750
1981900
1982800
1983700
1984860
19851010
1986990
19871280
19881020
19891080
19901220
19911150
19921050
1993960
19941110
1995690
1996920
1997960
19981250
19991320
20001200
200113749
200293120
2003104150
2004100187
200590223
2006109195
200765191
200866187
200975193
2010116228
2011105206
2012112198
2013132222
2014164237
2015153251
2016159236
2017165222
2018170247
2019213226
2020222202
2021160210
2022149203
2023134161
2024157151
2025134179
202675104

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