B60D 1/56
Securing to the vehicle bumper
Official title: securing to the vehicle bumper
B60D1/56 (Securing to the vehicle bumper) appears on 177 US grants and 171 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60D- Granted patents
- 177
- Published applications
- 171
- Assignees
- 104
- Inventors
- 409
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 2003 | 4 | 3 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10 |
| 2005 | 11 | 7 |
| 2006 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 5 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 6 |
| 2010 | 4 | 5 |
| 2011 | 2 | 4 |
| 2012 | 4 | 2 |
| 2013 | 5 | 1 |
| 2014 | 4 | 5 |
| 2015 | 6 | 7 |
| 2016 | 4 | 5 |
| 2017 | 4 | 5 |
| 2018 | 9 | 12 |
| 2019 | 8 | 6 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11 |
| 2021 | 6 | 8 |
| 2022 | 12 | 10 |
| 2023 | 5 | 6 |
| 2024 | 9 | 25 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9 |
| 2026 | 9 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Crash management system for a motor vehicle1 Sep 2026US 12,722,436 B2Constellium Singen GmbH
- Sway bar bushing bracket with tow hook11 Aug 2026US 12,703,222 B2Advanced Flow Engineering, Inc.
- Front subframe mounted recovery hook14 Jul 2026US 12,679,151 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Tow hook assemblies and vehicles including same19 May 2026US 12,629,973 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Tow hook assemblies and vehicles including same5 May 2026US 12,617,247 B2Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Trailer hitch tube mounted accessories and vehicles including trailer hitch mounted accessories1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296115 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Hitch assembly for vehicle front tow hook25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175633 A1
- Rear rail hitch interface for a vehicle18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167137 A1Fca US LLC
- Movable tow hook assemblies and vehicles including same21 May 2026US 2026/0138404 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle14 May 2026US 2026/0131607 A1Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Adjustably extensible trailer hitch assembly68US 5,727,805 A1998
- Tow assembly61US 5,716,066 ASaturn Corporation · 1998
- Dual function vehicle tow hook60US 5,054,806 AChrysler Corporation · 1991
- Detachable tow hook assembly and vehicle with one or more detachable tow hooks59US 7,472,919 B2Daimler Trucks North America LLC · 2009
- Vehicle hitch assembly51US 4,662,647 A1987