B63B 21/16
Tying-up: using winches
Official title: using winches (winches per se B66D)
B63B21/16 (Tying-up: using winches) appears on 138 US grants and 150 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
- 138
- Published applications
- 150
- Assignees
- 102
- Inventors
- 316
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2008 | 1 | 4 |
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| 2010 | 3 | 3 |
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| 2012 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013 | 4 | 8 |
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| 2015 | 8 | 13 |
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| 2020 | 9 | 8 |
| 2021 | 2 | 7 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10 |
| 2023 | 8 | 14 |
| 2024 | 8 | 11 |
| 2025 | 8 | 7 |
| 2026 | 4 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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