G10D 3/18
Chin-rests, hand-rests, shoulder rests or guards being removable from, or integral with
Official title: Chin-rests, hand-rests, shoulder rests or guards being removable from, or integral with the instrument
G10D3/18 (Chin-rests, hand-rests, shoulder rests or guards being removable from, or integral with) appears on 137 US grants and 96 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G10D- Granted patents
- 137
- Published applications
- 96
- Assignees
- 37
- Inventors
- 167
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2005 | 3 | 5 |
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| 2007 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009 | 7 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 4 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 4 |
| 2014 | 5 | 9 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2 |
| 2016 | 10 | 7 |
| 2017 | 6 | 4 |
| 2018 | 4 | 4 |
| 2019 | 4 | 2 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4 |
| 2021 | 8 | 12 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8 |
| 2023 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Shoulder rest for violin3 Jun 2025US 12,322,361 B2
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- Stringed musical instrument with fretting saddling member with saddling interfaces for multiple strings17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279313 A1Polyphonic Chromaticism, Inc.
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- Musical Instrument Supporting Device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229204 A1
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- Separable shoulder rest assembly for musical instruments19 Feb 2026US 2026/0051303 A1Volume Orchestration LLC Michigan
Most cited
By later US patents
- Collapsible stringed musical instrument28US 4,770,079 A1988
- Violin or the like shoulder rest28US 5,270,474 A1993
- Adjustable shoulder rest for violins or the like27US 6,031,163 AThe Kun Shoulder Rest Inc. · 2000
- Violin shoulder rest23US 5,208,409 A1993
- Device for supporting a musical instrument22US 4,333,378 A1982