Y10T 428/1328
Shrinkable or shrunk [e.g., due to heat, solvent, volatile agent, restraint removal
Official title: Shrinkable or shrunk [e.g., due to heat, solvent, volatile agent, restraint removal, etc.]
Y10T428/1328 (Shrinkable or shrunk [e.g., due to heat, solvent, volatile agent, restraint removal) appears on 1,029 US grants and 470 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y10T- Granted patents
- 1,029
- Published applications
- 470
- Assignees
- 406
- Inventors
- 1,717
- Latest grant
- 4 Nov 2025
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7 | 0 |
| 1977 | 11 | 0 |
| 1978 | 7 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 15 | 0 |
| 1981 | 20 | 0 |
| 1982 | 16 | 0 |
| 1983 | 22 | 0 |
| 1984 | 37 | 0 |
| 1985 | 16 | 0 |
| 1986 | 20 | 0 |
| 1987 | 20 | 0 |
| 1988 | 28 | 0 |
| 1989 | 43 | 0 |
| 1990 | 38 | 0 |
| 1991 | 29 | 0 |
| 1992 | 27 | 0 |
| 1993 | 25 | 0 |
| 1994 | 41 | 0 |
| 1995 | 28 | 0 |
| 1996 | 25 | 0 |
| 1997 | 34 | 0 |
| 1998 | 39 | 0 |
| 1999 | 36 | 0 |
| 2000 | 21 | 0 |
| 2001 | 29 | 15 |
| 2002 | 21 | 22 |
| 2003 | 39 | 37 |
| 2004 | 29 | 43 |
| 2005 | 22 | 35 |
| 2006 | 23 | 25 |
| 2007 | 21 | 35 |
| 2008 | 19 | 51 |
| 2009 | 18 | 41 |
| 2010 | 29 | 41 |
| 2011 | 29 | 23 |
| 2012 | 23 | 14 |
| 2013 | 31 | 17 |
| 2014 | 21 | 16 |
| 2015 | 11 | 13 |
| 2016 | 7 | 5 |
| 2017 | 9 | 4 |
| 2018 | 9 | 8 |
| 2019 | 4 | 6 |
| 2020 | 5 | 6 |
| 2021 | 4 | 7 |
| 2022 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method of manufacturing and/or operating deployable structures using hydride material4 Nov 2025US 12,459,677 B1HRL Laboratories, LLC
- Polyester sealant film, laminate and package4 Mar 2025US 12,240,211 B2Toyobo Co., Ltd.
- Hydride forming of sheet materials9 Jul 2024US 12,030,676 B1HRL Laboratories, LLC
- Polymeric tubes with controlled orientation4 Jun 2024US 11,999,130 B2Zeus Co., Ltd.
- Heat-shrinkable multilayer film and heat-shrinkable label16 Apr 2024US 11,958,272 B2Gunze Limited
- Polymeric tubes with controlled orientation29 Aug 2024US 2024/0286373 A1Zeus Co., Ltd.
- Peelable heat-shrink tubing30 May 2024US 2024/0173461 A1Zeus Co., Ltd.
- Glass containers and sealing assemblies for maintaining seal integrity at low storage temperatures27 Jul 2023US 2023/0233407 A1Corning Incorporated
- Process For Preventing Organoleptic Degradation In Flexibly-Packaged Sensitive Foods And Packaged Products Thereof16 Mar 2023US 2023/0084886 A1Liqui-Box Corporation
- Heat-shrinkable multilayer film and heat-shrinkable label18 Aug 2022US 2022/0258458 A1Gunze Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Heat shrinkable multi-layer film of hydrolyzed ethylene vinyl acetate and a cross-linked olefin polymer197US 4,064,296 AW. R. Grace & Co. · 1977
- Rapidly recoverable PTFE and process therefore180US 4,877,661 AW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. · 1989
- Thin-wall polytetrafluoroethylene tube158US 5,972,441 AW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. · 1999
- Thin-wall intraluminal graft130US 6,027,811 AW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. · 2000
- Method of securing a thin-wall intraluminal graft126US 5,976,650 AW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. · 1999