G02B 6/4434
Central member to take up tensile loads
Official title: {Central member to take up tensile loads}
G02B6/4434 (Central member to take up tensile loads) appears on 457 US grants and 449 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 457
- Published applications
- 449
- Assignees
- 141
- Inventors
- 695
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1989 | 7 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 9 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 3 |
| 2002 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 5 | 6 |
| 2004 | 1 | 5 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 6 | 6 |
| 2007 | 5 | 6 |
| 2008 | 5 | 4 |
| 2009 | 3 | 7 |
| 2010 | 3 | 10 |
| 2011 | 3 | 11 |
| 2012 | 6 | 6 |
| 2013 | 9 | 10 |
| 2014 | 18 | 20 |
| 2015 | 20 | 34 |
| 2016 | 32 | 29 |
| 2017 | 26 | 33 |
| 2018 | 34 | 26 |
| 2019 | 33 | 37 |
| 2020 | 37 | 35 |
| 2021 | 27 | 29 |
| 2022 | 27 | 25 |
| 2023 | 18 | 36 |
| 2024 | 17 | 29 |
| 2025 | 22 | 24 |
| 2026 | 14 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
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