E06C 7/181
Additional gripping devices
Official title: {Additional gripping devices, e.g. handrails}
E06C7/181 (Additional gripping devices) appears on 222 US grants and 286 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E06C- Granted patents
- 222
- Published applications
- 286
- Assignees
- 120
- Inventors
- 371
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 3 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 2003 | 5 | 3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 7 |
| 2006 | 4 | 2 |
| 2007 | 5 | 2 |
| 2008 | 3 | 6 |
| 2009 | 0 | 6 |
| 2010 | 1 | 8 |
| 2011 | 1 | 9 |
| 2012 | 5 | 11 |
| 2013 | 8 | 11 |
| 2014 | 14 | 14 |
| 2015 | 11 | 9 |
| 2016 | 12 | 16 |
| 2017 | 7 | 17 |
| 2018 | 13 | 16 |
| 2019 | 13 | 26 |
| 2020 | 19 | 21 |
| 2021 | 14 | 12 |
| 2022 | 9 | 13 |
| 2023 | 12 | 19 |
| 2024 | 11 | 19 |
| 2025 | 9 | 17 |
| 2026 | 13 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Ladder accessory71US 5,913,380 AC-6 Corporation · 1999
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- Ladders, ladder components and related methods48US 9,016,434 B2Wing Enterprises, Incorporated · 2015
- Access platform system with integrated folding steps41US 10,214,963 B2Gse Technologies, LLC · 2019