D06F 21/04
Within an enclosing receptacle
Official title: within an enclosing receptacle
D06F21/04 (Within an enclosing receptacle) appears on 70 US grants and 85 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D06F- Granted patents
- 70
- Published applications
- 85
- Assignees
- 29
- Inventors
- 157
- Latest grant
- 9 Dec 2025
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| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 |
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| 2017 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 0 | 7 |
| 2020 | 2 | 14 |
| 2021 | 10 | 11 |
| 2022 | 14 | 11 |
| 2023 | 11 | 9 |
| 2024 | 12 | 6 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 |
| 2026 | 0 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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