B60V 1/043
The walls being flexible
Official title: {the walls being flexible (skirt details B60V1/16)}
B60V1/043 (The walls being flexible) appears on 37 US grants and 19 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B60V- Granted patents
- 37
- Published applications
- 19
- Assignees
- 19
- Inventors
- 81
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
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| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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