F16L 1/024
Laying or reclaiming pipes on land
Official title: Laying or reclaiming pipes on land, e.g. above the ground (F16L1/12 takes precedence)
F16L1/024 (Laying or reclaiming pipes on land) appears on 1,024 US grants and 905 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16L- Granted patents
- 1,024
- Published applications
- 905
- Assignees
- 521
- Inventors
- 1,717
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 10 | 15 |
| 2004 | 14 | 9 |
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| 2006 | 12 | 23 |
| 2007 | 17 | 23 |
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| 2022 | 67 | 49 |
| 2023 | 44 | 40 |
| 2024 | 44 | 40 |
| 2025 | 41 | 40 |
| 2026 | 23 | 30 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Removably mounted plow for elongated tubular materials8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305511 A1Roberts Welding & Fabricating Ltd.
- Counterweight assembly for a lifting machine1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296849 A1Caterpillar Inc.
- Frame for trenchless pipe replacement system and method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298370 A1TT Technologies, Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of extracting a hollow unit laid in the ground195US 5,984,582 A1999
- Detection element for objects and detection device using the same140US 6,812,707 B2Mitsubishi Materials Corporation · 2004
- Systems and methods for identifying and mapping conduit location140US 6,850,161 B1Verizon Corporate Services Group Inc. · 2005
- Horizontal drilling method and apparatus131US 5,803,666 A1998
- Oral hygiene apparatuses using faucet water flow to produce spray jet120US 6,835,181 B22004