E04B 2/56
Load-bearing walls of framework or pillarwork
Official title: {Load-bearing} walls of framework or pillarwork; Walls incorporating load-bearing elongated members (E04B2/74, E04B2/88 take precedence; pillars E04C3/30)
E04B2/56 (Load-bearing walls of framework or pillarwork) appears on 1,181 US grants and 1,206 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E04B- Granted patents
- 1,181
- Published applications
- 1,206
- Assignees
- 488
- Inventors
- 1,705
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 22 | 0 |
| 1977 | 16 | 0 |
| 1978 | 21 | 0 |
| 1979 | 8 | 0 |
| 1980 | 14 | 0 |
| 1981 | 16 | 0 |
| 1982 | 8 | 0 |
| 1983 | 6 | 0 |
| 1984 | 10 | 0 |
| 1985 | 8 | 0 |
| 1986 | 11 | 0 |
| 1987 | 8 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 8 | 0 |
| 1990 | 8 | 0 |
| 1991 | 6 | 0 |
| 1992 | 9 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 11 | 0 |
| 1995 | 8 | 0 |
| 1996 | 12 | 0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 0 |
| 1998 | 12 | 0 |
| 1999 | 9 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 20 | 3 |
| 2002 | 12 | 11 |
| 2003 | 9 | 11 |
| 2004 | 8 | 27 |
| 2005 | 7 | 18 |
| 2006 | 10 | 22 |
| 2007 | 4 | 25 |
| 2008 | 9 | 30 |
| 2009 | 11 | 24 |
| 2010 | 17 | 31 |
| 2011 | 15 | 36 |
| 2012 | 22 | 36 |
| 2013 | 30 | 45 |
| 2014 | 44 | 55 |
| 2015 | 52 | 64 |
| 2016 | 58 | 69 |
| 2017 | 57 | 84 |
| 2018 | 55 | 78 |
| 2019 | 77 | 106 |
| 2020 | 74 | 72 |
| 2021 | 65 | 79 |
| 2022 | 65 | 70 |
| 2023 | 64 | 75 |
| 2024 | 50 | 66 |
| 2025 | 51 | 35 |
| 2026 | 33 | 34 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- E04B 2/70With elongated members of wood507
- E04B 2/58With elongated members of metal424
- E04B 2002/565With a brick veneer facingIndexing code68
- E04B 2/562With fillings between the load-bearing elongated members56
- E04B 2/64With elongated members of concrete51
- E04B 2002/567With posts or pillars made from a plurality of smaller prefabricated elementsIndexing code7
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