D04B 37/02
Auxiliary apparatus or devices for use with knitting machines: with weft knitting
Official title: with weft knitting machines
D04B37/02 (Auxiliary apparatus or devices for use with knitting machines: with weft knitting) appears on 126 US grants and 106 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D04B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 2 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Article of footwear incorporating a knitted component with a tongue2 Dec 2025US 12,486,600 B2NIKE, Inc.
- One-piece knitted article for lower portion of human body and methods for knitting same4 Nov 2025US 12,460,326 B1Global Apparel Partners Inc.
- Tool for design and fabrication of knitted components28 Oct 2025US 12,454,776 B2NIKE, Inc.
- Systems and method for textile fabric definition14 Oct 2025US 12,444,212 B2Black Swan Textiles
- Knitted textile methods19 Aug 2025US 12,389,968 B2Global Apparel Partners Inc.
- Article of footwear incorporating a knitted component with a tongue12 Mar 2026US 2026/0071359 A1NIKE, Inc.
- Tool For Design And Fabrication of Knitted Components29 Jan 2026US 2026/0028757 A1NIKE, Inc.
- Garment Integrated Capacitive Sensor Produced From An Insulated Knitted Layer And A Non-Insulated Knitted Layer And Uses Thereof5 Jun 2025US 2025/0179698 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Method and system for determining at least one production value for producing a custom-tailored compression garment for a limb and computer program29 May 2025US 2025/0169714 A1Medi GmbH & Co. KG
- Methods for fabrication of articles from three-dimensional models22 May 2025US 2025/0163620 A1Global Apparel Partners Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Article of footwear incorporating a knitted component with a tongue146US 8,448,474 B1NIKE, Inc. · 2013
- Support stocking product or the like72US 4,502,301 ARampon Products, Inc. · 1985
- Article of footwear incorporating a knitted component with a tongue63US 8,621,891 B2NIKE, Inc. · 2014
- Knit design system and a method for designing knit fabrics58US 5,557,527 AShima Seiki Manufacturing, Ltd. · 1996
- Program-controlled knitting machine, method and products thereof56US 4,527,402 ARampon Products, Inc. · 1985