H01R 29/00
Coupling parts for selective co-operation with a counterpart in different ways to
Official title: Coupling parts for selective co-operation with a counterpart in different ways to establish different circuits, e.g. for voltage selection, for series-parallel selection, {programmable connectors}
H01R29/00 (Coupling parts for selective co-operation with a counterpart in different ways to) appears on 1,004 US grants and 727 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01R- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
- 571
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for interfacing a bipolar electrosurgical instrument to a monopolar generator691US 5,573,424 AEverest Medical Corporation · 1996
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