F42B 27/00
Hand grenades
Official title: Hand grenades (F42B12/00 takes precedence; for practice or training F42B8/12)
F42B27/00 (Hand grenades) appears on 143 US grants and 109 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F42B- Granted patents
- 143
- Published applications
- 109
- Assignees
- 62
- Inventors
- 243
- Latest grant
- 12 May 2026
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| 2024 | 5 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 3 |
| 2026 | 3 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Drone adapter for dropping spoon-based devices12 May 2026US 12,623,780 B2Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.
- Hand-throwable effect-producing body with a manually graspable housing body and method for operating a hand-throwable effect-producing body12 May 2026US 12,624,934 B2Rheinmetall Waffe Munition ARGES GmbH
- Curve of constant width projectile system17 Mar 2026US 12,578,174 B2Bae Systems Bofors AB
- Soft reusable grenade round for team-based shooting game8 Jul 2025US 12,352,548 B1Cherub Milsim, LLC
- Flash bang grenade hook and method of use1 Jul 2025US 12,345,496 B2Icarus Precision LLC
- Non-lethal double-stage article made from a natural cellulose polymer, uses thereof and method for producing same, and kit30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118101 A1Condor S.A. Industria Quimica
- Flash bang grenade hook and method of use18 Sep 2025US 2025/0290722 A1Icarus Precision LLC
- Hand-throwable effect-producing body with a manually graspable housing body and method for operating a hand-throwable effect-producing body1 May 2025US 2025/0137765 A1Rheinmetall Waffe Munition ARGES GmbH
- Drone adapter for dropping spoon-based devices27 Feb 2025US 2025/0066019 A1Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.
- Projectile19 Sep 2024US 2024/0310155 A1Bae Systems Bofors AB
Most cited
By later US patents
- Police audio identification and distraction device48US 5,764,134 A1998
- Reusable paint grenade46US 6,871,594 B12005
- Stun grenade38US 5,654,523 ACombined Systems, Inc. · 1997
- Non-lethal distraction device22US 4,976,201 AMartin Electronics · 1990
- Hand grenade with wave-forming means between chambers20US 4,328,755 AOregon Etablissement fur Patentverwertung · 1982