F24S 2020/16
Preventing shading effects
Official title: {Preventing shading effects}
F24S2020/16 (Preventing shading effects) appears on 100 US grants and 135 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F24S- Granted patents
- 100
- Published applications
- 135
- Assignees
- 74
- Inventors
- 246
- Latest grant
- 17 Feb 2026
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| 2023 | 5 | 3 |
| 2024 | 4 | 7 |
| 2025 | 3 | 4 |
| 2026 | 1 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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