G08C 2201/71
Directional beams
G08C2201/71 (Directional beams) appears on 104 US grants and 127 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G08C- Granted patents
- 104
- Published applications
- 127
- Assignees
- 83
- Inventors
- 300
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
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| 2003 | 5 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 | 6 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 2 | 6 |
| 2008 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 13 |
| 2010 | 3 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 10 |
| 2012 | 3 | 9 |
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| 2015 | 10 | 5 |
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| 2019 | 8 | 4 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2 |
| 2022 | 5 | 6 |
| 2023 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 5 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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