B64U 20/87
Mounting of imaging devices
Official title: Mounting of imaging devices, e.g. mounting of gimbals
B64U20/87 (Mounting of imaging devices) appears on 939 US grants and 1,301 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B64U- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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