B41F 13/008
Mechanical features of drives
Official title: Mechanical features of drives, e.g. gears, clutches
B41F13/008 (Mechanical features of drives) appears on 165 US grants and 125 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B41F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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