F42B 8/14
Disintegrating in flight or upon impact
Official title: disintegrating in flight or upon impact
F42B8/14 (Disintegrating in flight or upon impact) appears on 108 US grants and 65 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F42B- Granted patents
- 108
- Published applications
- 65
- Assignees
- 71
- Inventors
- 202
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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| 2021 | 3 | 1 |
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| 2023 | 4 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Short-range projectile5 May 2026US 12,618,651 B2Bae Systems Bofors AB
- Tool and method for producing a projectile and projectile20 Jan 2026US 12,529,549 B2RWS GmbH
- Dosage projectile and method of manufacture30 Sep 2025US 12,429,316 B2SmartVet Pty Ltd
- Precision non-shattering less-lethal projectile29 Jul 2025US 12,372,337 B1Umarex GmbH & Co. KG
- Low lethal projectile system21 Jan 2025US 12,203,733 B2
- Smart shell25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177364 A1
- Tool and method for producing a projectile and projectile20 Jun 2024US 2024/0200918 A1RWS GmbH
- Low lethal projectile system1 Feb 2024US 2024/0035786 A1
- Low lethal projectile system1 Feb 2024US 2024/0035787 A1
- Low lethal projectile system1 Feb 2024US 2024/0035788 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Large caliber frangible projectile204US 9,212,876 B1The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army · 2015
- System and method for processing ferrotungsten and other tungsten alloys, articles formed therefrom and methods for detecting the same160US 7,383,776 B22008
- Frangible nonlethal projectile87US 5,035,183 A1991
- Frangible metal bullets, ammunition and method of making such articles63US 6,090,178 ASinterFire Inc. · 2000
- Frangible metal bullets, ammunition and method of making such articles52US 6,263,798 B1SinterFire Inc. · 2001