F42B 10/46
Streamlined nose cones
Official title: Streamlined nose cones; Windshields; Radomes {(F42B12/105 takes precedence)}
F42B10/46 (Streamlined nose cones) appears on 216 US grants and 166 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F42B- Granted patents
- 216
- Published applications
- 166
- Assignees
- 96
- Inventors
- 447
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2004 | 0 | 2 |
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| 2006 | 5 | 5 |
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| 2008 | 4 | 4 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3 |
| 2010 | 6 | 4 |
| 2011 | 6 | 12 |
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| 2017 | 6 | 15 |
| 2018 | 12 | 12 |
| 2019 | 7 | 11 |
| 2020 | 17 | 15 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9 |
| 2022 | 12 | 8 |
| 2023 | 12 | 16 |
| 2024 | 15 | 5 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3 |
| 2026 | 5 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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