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Patents
1920s
Stockade: Building Structure
1,633,702
Filed:
October 8, 1926
Issued:
June 28, 1927
Stockade: Pneumatic Forming Process
1,634,900
Filed:
December 31, 1924
Issued:
July 5, 1927
4D House*
Filed:
April 1, 1928
Issued:
January 1, 1928
1930s
Dymaxion Car
2,101,057
Filed:
October 18, 1933
Issued:
December 7, 1937
1940s
Dymaxion Bathroom
2,220,482
Filed:
May 12, 1938
Issued:
November 5, 1940
Dymaxion Deployment Unit (sheet)
2,343,764
Filed:
March 21, 1941
Issued:
March 7, 1944
Dymaxion Deployment Unit (frame)
2,351,419
Filed:
April 9, 1941
Issued:
June 13, 1944
Dymaxion Map
2,393,676
Filed:
February 25, 1944
Issued:
January 29, 1946
1950s
Geodesic Dome
2,682,235
Filed:
December 12, 1951
Issued:
June 29, 1954
Paperboard Dome
2,881,717
Filed:
January 24, 1955
Issued:
April 14, 1959
Plydome
2,905,113
Filed:
April 22, 1957
Issued:
September 22, 1959
Catenary (Geodesic Tent)
2,914,074
Filed:
March 1, 1957
Issued:
November 24, 1959
1960s
Octet Truss
2,986,241
Filed:
February 7, 1956
Issued:
May 30, 1961
Tensegrity Structures
3,063,521
Filed:
August 31, 1959
Issued:
November 13, 1962
Submarisle (Undersea Island)
3,080,583
Filed:
June 8, 1959
Issued:
March 12, 1963
Aspension (Suspension Building)
3,139,957
Filed:
January 24, 1961
Issued:
July 7, 1964
Octa Spinner*
Filed:
March 17, 1965
Issued:
March 17, 1965
Monohex (Geodesic Structures)
3,197,927
Filed:
December 19, 1961
Issued:
August 3, 1965
Laminar Dome
3,203,144
Filed:
May 27, 1960
Issued:
August 31, 1965
Star Tensegrity (Octahedral Truss)
3,354,591
Filed:
December 7, 1964
Issued:
November 28, 1967
1970s
Rowing Needles
3,524,422
Filed:
August 18, 1970
Issued:
August 18, 1970
Floatable Breakwater
3,863,455
Filed:
December 10, 1973
Issued:
February 4, 1975
Non-symmetrical Tensegrity
3,866,366
Filed:
August 7, 1973
Issued:
February 18, 1975
Floating Breakwater
4,136,994
Filed:
September 19, 1977
Issued:
January 30, 1979
1980s
Tensegrity Truss
4,207,715
Filed:
September 14, 1978
Issued:
June 17, 1980
Hanging Storage Shelf Unit
4,377,114
Filed:
October 5, 1981
Issued:
March 22, 1983
*Application abandoned by Buckminster Fuller leaving prior art evidence in patent office files.