G02B 6/3566
Involving bending a beam
Official title: {involving bending a beam, e.g. with cantilever}
G02B6/3566 (Involving bending a beam) appears on 187 US grants and 144 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 187
- Published applications
- 144
- Assignees
- 117
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- 410
- Latest grant
- 2 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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