F16K 5/188
Sealing effected by the flowing medium
Official title: {Sealing effected by the flowing medium}
F16K5/188 (Sealing effected by the flowing medium) appears on 35 US grants and 33 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16K- Granted patents
- 35
- Published applications
- 33
- Assignees
- 33
- Inventors
- 74
- Latest grant
- 24 Mar 2026
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| 2024 | 1 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
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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