G09B
Educational or demonstration appliances
Official title: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B)
G09B (Educational or demonstration appliances) appears on 28,527 US grants and 36,689 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G09B- Granted patents
- 28,527
- Published applications
- 36,689
- Assignees
- 11,316
- Inventors
- 67,039
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 184 | 0 |
| 1977 | 206 | 0 |
| 1978 | 175 | 0 |
| 1979 | 125 | 0 |
| 1980 | 181 | 0 |
| 1981 | 171 | 0 |
| 1982 | 165 | 0 |
| 1983 | 159 | 0 |
| 1984 | 192 | 0 |
| 1985 | 186 | 0 |
| 1986 | 163 | 0 |
| 1987 | 270 | 0 |
| 1988 | 211 | 0 |
| 1989 | 274 | 0 |
| 1990 | 234 | 0 |
| 1991 | 232 | 0 |
| 1992 | 258 | 0 |
| 1993 | 310 | 0 |
| 1994 | 311 | 0 |
| 1995 | 282 | 0 |
| 1996 | 347 | 0 |
| 1997 | 304 | 0 |
| 1998 | 466 | 0 |
| 1999 | 432 | 0 |
| 2000 | 478 | 0 |
| 2001 | 414 | 173 |
| 2002 | 437 | 738 |
| 2003 | 427 | 854 |
| 2004 | 410 | 840 |
| 2005 | 324 | 929 |
| 2006 | 404 | 1050 |
| 2007 | 365 | 1128 |
| 2008 | 310 | 1268 |
| 2009 | 349 | 1109 |
| 2010 | 481 | 1152 |
| 2011 | 533 | 1095 |
| 2012 | 651 | 1273 |
| 2013 | 901 | 1605 |
| 2014 | 1001 | 2085 |
| 2015 | 956 | 2001 |
| 2016 | 1170 | 2116 |
| 2017 | 1362 | 2074 |
| 2018 | 1203 | 2015 |
| 2019 | 1597 | 2020 |
| 2020 | 1583 | 1967 |
| 2021 | 1518 | 1895 |
| 2022 | 1383 | 1794 |
| 2023 | 1350 | 1609 |
| 2024 | 1244 | 1538 |
| 2025 | 1100 | 1292 |
| 2026 | 738 | 1069 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
- G09B 19/00Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass9,033
- G09B 5/00Electrically-operated educational appliances6,667
- G09B 23/00Models for scientific, medical, or mathematical purposes4,687
- G09B 7/00Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers3,869
- G09B 9/00Simulators for teaching or training purposes3,377
- G09B 29/00Maps2,838
- G09B 21/00Teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute2,514
- G09B 15/00Teaching music1,250
All 15 main groupsShow fewer
- G09B 1/00Manually or mechanically operated educational appliances using elements forming, or bearing, symbols710
- G09B 17/00Teaching reading656
- G09B 25/00Models for purposes not provided for in g09b23/00572
- G09B 11/00Teaching hand-writing, shorthand, drawing, or painting387
- G09B 3/00Manually or mechanically operated teaching appliances working with questions and answers300
- G09B 27/00Planetaria285
- G09B 13/00Teaching typing83
Recent patents
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- Landscape generation system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,571 B2Southern University of Science and Technology
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- Image processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium6 Oct 2026US 12,755,642 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Wearable electronic devices and methods for detecting emotional states and providing actionable neurofeedback8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306020 A1Awear Technologies, LLC
- Systems and methods for simulating vascular surgery8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306181 A1Flyfruit Medtech Inc
- Systems and methods for providing haptic feedback to dhh persons8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306940 A1Morat Gaming LLC
- Method and system for providing assistance data for at least one passenger-owned device in an aircraft8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307793 A1
- System And Method For Coaching An Operator Of A Work Machine8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308884 A1Caterpillar Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Travel reservation information and planning system2,363US 5,948,040 ADeLorme Publishing Co. · 1999
- Diabetes management system and method for controlling blood glucose2,049US 5,822,715 AHealth Hero Network, Inc. · 1998
- Diabetes management system and method for controlling blood glucose2,024US 6,379,301 B1Health Hero Network, Inc. · 2002
- Arm cart for telerobotic surgical system1,666US 6,837,883 B2Intuitive Surgical, Inc. · 2005
- Integrated routing/mapping information1,518US 6,321,158 B1DeLorme Publishing Co. · 2001