D02G 3/444
Yarns or threads for use in sports applications
Official title: {Yarns or threads for use in sports applications (strings for tennis rackets A63B51/02)}
D02G3/444 (Yarns or threads for use in sports applications) appears on 68 US grants and 57 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D02G- Granted patents
- 68
- Published applications
- 57
- Assignees
- 56
- Inventors
- 137
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 2 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 3 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 4 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 3 | 6 |
| 2023 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- String construction75US 4,016,714 AAshaway Line & Twine Mfg. Co. · 1977
- String construction produced by subjecting a fibrous strand composed of fibrous materials having differing melting points to heating conditions sufficient to melt some but not all of the fibrous materials47US 4,275,117 AAshaway Line & Twine Mfg. Co. · 1981
- Process for forming string43US 4,168,606 AThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company · 1979
- Synthetical technical multifilament yarn and a process for the manufacture thereof41US 4,473,617 AAkzo N. V. · 1984
- Cobulked continuous filament heather yarn method and product36US 4,295,329 AE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company · 1981