B65B 9/045
For single articles
Official title: {for single articles, e.g. tablets}
B65B9/045 (For single articles) appears on 221 US grants and 270 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65B- Granted patents
- 221
- Published applications
- 270
- Assignees
- 159
- Inventors
- 492
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2022 | 10 | 17 |
| 2023 | 10 | 11 |
| 2024 | 17 | 10 |
| 2025 | 12 | 11 |
| 2026 | 6 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for ordering and feeding a small item like a tablet, capsule, pill or dragee in a packaging machine85US 4,693,057 AJosef Uhlmann Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG · 1987
- Method of making an applicator package67US 4,372,098 AMason-Keller Corporation · 1983
- Method and apparatus for molding contact lenses and making their container52US 5,524,419 ABausch & Lomb Incorporated · 1996
- Blister package for pharmaceutical cartridges50US 8,925,726 B2MannKind Corporation · 2015
- Device for individual packing of tablets according to a multi-dose system45US 7,856,794 B22010