F16B 37/068
By deforming the material of the support
Official title: {by deforming the material of the support, e.g. the sheet or plate}
F16B37/068 (By deforming the material of the support) appears on 280 US grants and 263 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 263
- Assignees
- 92
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2023 | 12 | 10 |
| 2024 | 21 | 17 |
| 2025 | 4 | 8 |
| 2026 | 5 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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- Method of installing self-attaching fasteners66US 4,555,838 AMultifastener Corporation · 1985