D04B 21/18
Incorporating elastic threads
Official title: incorporating elastic threads
D04B21/18 (Incorporating elastic threads) appears on 240 US grants and 210 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D04B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
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