H01R 12/778
Coupling parts carrying sockets, clips or analogous counter-contacts
Official title: {Coupling parts carrying sockets, clips or analogous counter-contacts (H01R12/78, H01R12/79 take precedence)}
H01R12/778 (Coupling parts carrying sockets, clips or analogous counter-contacts) appears on 248 US grants and 218 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01R- Granted patents
- 248
- Published applications
- 218
- Assignees
- 161
- Inventors
- 541
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 10 | 11 |
| 2026 | 10 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
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