F16K 31/602
Pivoting levers
Official title: {Pivoting levers, e.g. single-sided (F16K31/605 takes precedence)}
F16K31/602 (Pivoting levers) appears on 397 US grants and 447 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 397
- Published applications
- 447
- Assignees
- 293
- Inventors
- 787
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 18 | 22 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Stopcock79US 7,984,730 B2Elcam Medical Agricultural Cooperative Association Ltd. · 2011
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