B65D 81/361
Modular elements with complementary shapes, interengageable parts or the like
Official title: {Modular elements with complementary shapes, interengageable parts or the like (toy building blocks A63H33/04; building elements for walls E04B2/02)}
B65D81/361 (Modular elements with complementary shapes, interengageable parts or the like) appears on 82 US grants and 77 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65D- Granted patents
- 82
- Published applications
- 77
- Assignees
- 40
- Inventors
- 170
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method and apparatus for interconnectable building block container toys capable of storing items19 May 2026US 12,630,334 B2ChangeBox IP Holdings, LLC
- Container12 Aug 2025US 12,383,084 B2Novelli Inc.
- Disposable receptacle to dispense flowable solutions into oral cavity and to collect same from oral cavity20 Feb 2024US 11,905,100 B1
- Multipurpose reusable container system12 Dec 2023US 11,840,391 B1
- Origami-inspired enclosure, table, and lamp9 May 2023US 11,643,246 B2Degrees of Freedom LLC
- Stackable Tower with Hollow Pieces28 Aug 2025US 2025/0269267 A1Ut Brands, LLC
- Container with dual assembly configurations and related methods27 Feb 2025US 2025/0066073 A1
- Container2 Jan 2025US 2025/0000285 A1Novelli Inc.
- Method and apparatus for interconnectable building block container toys capable of storing items18 Jan 2024US 2024/0017883 A1ChangeBox IP Holdings, LLC
- Cap for forming a modular system12 Oct 2023US 2023/0322465 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hybrid modular furniture and storage container unit107US 9,635,916 B2Muvo, LLC · 2017
- Hybrid modular furniture and storage container unit106US 8,651,593 B22014
- Modular connectors for cylindrical elements84US 4,170,082 A1979
- Container usable as a toy construction element71US 4,106,657 AP. Ferrero & C. S. p. A. · 1978
- Environmental building block container system68US 4,624,383 A1986