D04B 21/16
Incorporating synthetic threads
Official title: incorporating synthetic threads
D04B21/16 (Incorporating synthetic threads) appears on 592 US grants and 594 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D04B- Granted patents
- 592
- Published applications
- 594
- Assignees
- 392
- Inventors
- 1,276
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 14 | 0 |
| 2000 | 15 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 4 |
| 2002 | 9 | 14 |
| 2003 | 15 | 21 |
| 2004 | 10 | 30 |
| 2005 | 20 | 33 |
| 2006 | 13 | 15 |
| 2007 | 18 | 26 |
| 2008 | 5 | 22 |
| 2009 | 5 | 21 |
| 2010 | 18 | 20 |
| 2011 | 11 | 14 |
| 2012 | 19 | 21 |
| 2013 | 8 | 25 |
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| 2017 | 9 | 10 |
| 2018 | 9 | 27 |
| 2019 | 13 | 38 |
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| 2021 | 28 | 34 |
| 2022 | 18 | 32 |
| 2023 | 33 | 34 |
| 2024 | 23 | 36 |
| 2025 | 28 | 23 |
| 2026 | 16 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Knitted textile and method of forming16 Jun 2026US 12,655,553 B2NIKE, Inc.
- Shoes19 May 2026US 12,628,912 B2Asics Corporation
- Stitchbonded and gathered lyocell fabric unit30 Jul 2026US 2026/0218427 A1Amtex Innovations LLC
- Fabric with a yarn with at least one epoxy-compatible group and/or a group reactive towards epoxy, and manufacture method9 Jul 2026US 2026/0192542 A1
- Knit component bonding7 May 2026US 2026/0125832 A1NIKE, Inc.
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By later US patents
- Method of using a surgical repair mesh451US 4,655,221 AAmerican Cyanamid Company · 1987
- Method and material for prevention of surgical adhesions430US 5,002,551 AJohnson & Johnson Medical, Inc. · 1991
- Shoe upper of interknitted outer and inner knit layers351US 4,785,558 AToray Industries, Inc. · 1988
- Pressurizable envelope and method317US 4,906,502 A1990
- Pressurizable envelope and method294US 5,543,194 A1996