F41H 13/0012
Electrical discharge weapons
Official title: {Electrical discharge weapons, e.g. for stunning}
F41H13/0012 (Electrical discharge weapons) appears on 559 US grants and 575 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F41H- Granted patents
- 559
- Published applications
- 575
- Assignees
- 133
- Inventors
- 639
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- F41H 13/0025For remote electrical discharge via conducting wires274
- F41H 13/0018For nearby electrical discharge, i.e. the electrodes being positioned on the device225
- F41H 13/0031For remote electrical discharge by means of a wireless projectile92
- F41H 13/0037For remote electrical discharge via liquid jets19
Recent patents
- Conducted electrical weapon cartridge cover and shorting bar15 Sep 2026US 12,736,312 B2Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- Cartridge identifier for a conducted electrical weapon25 Aug 2026US 12,716,693 B2Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- Training system11 Aug 2026US 12,704,346 B2Fabbrica D'Armi Pietro Beretta S.p.A.
- Repositioning during deployment of a conducted electrical weapon from a vehicle11 Aug 2026US 12,704,358 B2Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- Projectile impact simulation device21 Jul 2026US 12,687,367 B1Virtra, Inc.
- Magazine interposer for a conducted electrical weapon1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298590 A1Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- Propulsion module assembly for a projectile launcher24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287302 A1Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- Stun gun apparatus with a bypass switch and methods for making and using same20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243549 A1
- Distributing deployments in a conducted electrical weapon25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177359 A1Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- Lighted Projectile18 Jun 2026US 2026/0168776 A1Axon Enterprise, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hand-held stun gun for incapacitating a human target1,580US 6,636,412 B2TASER International, Inc. · 2003
- Less lethal weapons and methods for halting locomotion1,518US 7,075,770 B1TASER International, Inc. · 2006
- Systems and methods for modular electronic weaponry1,435US 7,778,004 B2TASER International, Inc. · 2010
- Devices using tactile feedback to deliver silent status information1,220US 8,739,033 B2Immersion Corporation · 2014
- Stun bullets186US 5,698,815 A1997