H01B 7/22
Metal wires or tapes
Official title: Metal wires or tapes, e.g. made of steel
H01B7/22 (Metal wires or tapes) appears on 267 US grants and 301 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01B- Granted patents
- 267
- Published applications
- 301
- Assignees
- 166
- Inventors
- 679
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 |
| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 5 | 0 |
| 1988 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 2 | 3 |
| 2003 | 2 | 0 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 1 | 6 |
| 2012 | 0 | 9 |
| 2013 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014 | 7 | 7 |
| 2015 | 5 | 11 |
| 2016 | 5 | 5 |
| 2017 | 10 | 11 |
| 2018 | 6 | 13 |
| 2019 | 22 | 30 |
| 2020 | 26 | 23 |
| 2021 | 18 | 42 |
| 2022 | 30 | 33 |
| 2023 | 21 | 25 |
| 2024 | 22 | 23 |
| 2025 | 24 | 31 |
| 2026 | 7 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Submarine cable18 Aug 2026US 12,712,098 B2Ls Cable & System Ltd.
- Conductive outer jacket for wireline cable11 Aug 2026US 12,706,230 B2Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Submarine cable system and method for laying a submarine cable system5 May 2026US 12,620,788 B2RWE Offshore Wind GmbH
- MC cable with tearable assembly tape17 Mar 2026US 12,580,097 B2AFC Cable Systems, Inc.
- Electrical cable with electrically conductive coating17 Feb 2026US 12,555,703 B2Samtec, Inc.
- Cable8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311911 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Collapse resistant coupled electro-optics slickline cable1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299238 A1Schlumberger Technology Corporation
- Cable16 Jul 2026US 2026/0204457 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Internally sprung shunt11 Jun 2026US 2026/0163321 A1Conductix, Inc.
- Electrical cable with electrically conductive coating21 May 2026US 2026/0142058 A1Samtec, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Crush-resistant coaxial transmission line157US 5,061,823 AW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. · 1991
- Remote unmanned work system (RUWS) electromechanical cable system120US 4,010,619 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy · 1977
- Plural conductor communication wire113US 4,467,138 AGK Technologies, Incorporated · 1984
- Flexible armored communication cable and method of manufacture111US 6,255,592 B1Gamut Technology, Inc. · 2001
- Protective jacket assembly103US 4,611,656 A1986