D06F 2105/44
Opening, closing or locking of doors
D06F2105/44 (Opening, closing or locking of doors) appears on 103 US grants and 146 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D06F- Granted patents
- 103
- Published applications
- 146
- Assignees
- 44
- Inventors
- 326
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 11 | 10 |
| 2025 | 4 | 16 |
| 2026 | 9 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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