B63B 22/20
Ballast means
B63B22/20 (Ballast means) appears on 107 US grants and 101 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B63B- Granted patents
- 107
- Published applications
- 101
- Assignees
- 87
- Inventors
- 328
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 2 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 3 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 2 | 5 |
| 2014 | 2 | 6 |
| 2015 | 3 | 7 |
| 2016 | 7 | 8 |
| 2017 | 9 | 9 |
| 2018 | 8 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 5 | 6 |
| 2022 | 7 | 7 |
| 2023 | 8 | 6 |
| 2024 | 4 | 7 |
| 2025 | 5 | 5 |
| 2026 | 5 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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