B81C 1/00007
Assembling automatically hinged components, i.e. self-assembly processes
Official title: {Assembling automatically hinged components, i.e. self-assembly processes (self-assembly mechanisms B81B7/0003)}
B81C1/00007 (Assembling automatically hinged components, i.e. self-assembly processes) appears on 28 US grants and 43 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B81C- Granted patents
- 28
- Published applications
- 43
- Assignees
- 39
- Inventors
- 101
- Latest grant
- 16 Dec 2025
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| 2016 | 2 | 2 |
| 2017 | 4 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System and method for array of MEMS elements16 Dec 2025US 12,497,288 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Self-folding 3D film assemblies31 Dec 2024US 12,180,068 B23M Innovative Properties Company
- Migration of nano metals in semisolid and solid matrix under the influence of selectively triggered heterogeneous nucleation and growth14 Nov 2023US 11,813,676 B2Instituto Tecnologico Y De Estudios Superiores De Monterrey
- Hierarchical assembly of self-replicating spacecraft using distributed mechanisms and actuation in digital materials21 Feb 2023US 11,584,637 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Self-folding sub-centimeter structures27 Dec 2022US 11,535,510 B2The Johns Hopkins University
- System and method for array of mems elements12 Mar 2026US 2026/0070780 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Controllable Reflective Optical Unit With MEMS Tip-Tilt Actuator12 Jun 2025US 2025/0187904 A1Mems Drive (Nanjing) Co., Ltd.
- Self-folding 3d film assemblies20 Feb 2025US 2025/0059026 A13M Innovative Properties Company
- System and method for array of mems elements9 Mar 2023US 2023/0077129 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Method of assembling mobile micro-machines and a mobile micro-machine27 Oct 2022US 2022/0340414 A1Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur FöRderung Der Wissenschaften E. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- MEMS tunable capacitor based on angular vertical comb drives47US 7,085,122 B2The Regents of the University of California · 2006
- Article comprising an inductor46US 6,101,371 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 2000
- Method and structure for magnetically-directed, self-assembly of three-dimensional structures42US 8,138,868 B2University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. · 2012
- Thin membrane alignment method using patterned nanomagnets30US 7,644,489 B2Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2010
- Methods for magnetically directed self assembly11US 7,926,176 B2General Electric Company · 2011