F42B 30/00
Projectiles or missiles, not otherwise provided for, characterised by the ammunition class
Official title: Projectiles or missiles, not otherwise provided for, characterised by the ammunition class or type, e.g. by the launching apparatus or weapon used (F42B10/00, F42B12/00, F42B14/00 take precedence)
F42B30/00 (Projectiles or missiles, not otherwise provided for, characterised by the ammunition class) appears on 578 US grants and 426 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F42B- Granted patents
- 578
- Published applications
- 426
- Assignees
- 224
- Inventors
- 955
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | 6 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 0 |
| 1985 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1988 | 6 | 0 |
| 1989 | 10 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 9 | 0 |
| 1992 | 11 | 0 |
| 1993 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1995 | 6 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 12 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 4 |
| 2002 | 8 | 10 |
| 2003 | 6 | 6 |
| 2004 | 5 | 4 |
| 2005 | 6 | 12 |
| 2006 | 8 | 16 |
| 2007 | 13 | 10 |
| 2008 | 7 | 13 |
| 2009 | 12 | 4 |
| 2010 | 6 | 26 |
| 2011 | 12 | 14 |
| 2012 | 12 | 19 |
| 2013 | 23 | 12 |
| 2014 | 25 | 27 |
| 2015 | 26 | 29 |
| 2016 | 32 | 27 |
| 2017 | 26 | 30 |
| 2018 | 22 | 23 |
| 2019 | 26 | 21 |
| 2020 | 27 | 26 |
| 2021 | 26 | 16 |
| 2022 | 24 | 31 |
| 2023 | 34 | 12 |
| 2024 | 24 | 17 |
| 2025 | 18 | 10 |
| 2026 | 14 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Projectile with antenna6 Oct 2026US 12,754,000 B2Bae Systems Bofors AB
- Firearm projectile device29 Sep 2026US 12,747,935 B2
- Trackable ammunition22 Sep 2026US 12,742,620 B2
- Projectile22 Sep 2026US D1,148,948 S1G9 Holdings, LLC · Design
- Customizable projectile designed to tumble11 Aug 2026US 12,704,362 B1Rekon, LLC
- Improvements in and relating to live monitoring of projectiles24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287314 A1BAE SYSTEMS plc
- Smart shell25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177364 A1
- Fused Element Artillery Projectile Manufacture: Modularization and Decentralization Enhancement for Modern Warfare30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118103 A1
- Bullet Capturing Ballistic Slugs5 Mar 2026US 2026/0063403 A1Alternative Ballistics
- Projectile delivery systems and weaponized aerial vehicles and methods including same19 Feb 2026US 2026/0048842 A1Corvid Technologies LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hand-held stun gun for incapacitating a human target1,580US 6,636,412 B2TASER International, Inc. · 2003
- High accuracy projectile256US 6,070,532 AOlin Corporation · 2000
- Projectile for fire arms227US 8,511,233 B2Norma Precision AB · 2013
- Bullet composition224US 7,392,746 B22008
- Composite projectile and cartridge with composite projectile219US 8,689,696 B1Caneel Associates, Inc. · 2014