De complete lijst van patenten telt er 47, gemiddeld een per twee jaar:
Ligature for clarinet and saxophone mouthpieces
US 1575621 A Frederic Parme, Marius Chiron Hippolyte 1926
Saxophone, clarinet, or other wind instrument
US 1748077 A James Packman Percival, Venn George Stanley 1930
Ligature
US 1757871 A Miller George L. 1930
Ligature
US 2292584 A Taffarella Herman O. 1942
Ligature for saxophone mouthpieces
US 2411380 A Mario Maccaferri 1946
Clamp or ligature for clarinets, saxophones, and similar instruments
US 2483327 A Stalowski Walter A 1949
Saxophone mouthpiece
US 2467921 A Milton Werner 1949
Ligature for musical instruments
US 2648246 A Mueller Walter W.1953
Ligatures for clarinets or the like
US 2791929 A Daniel Bonade 1957
Mouthpiece and ligature for reed instruments
US 2837003 A James Collis 1958
Ligature for reed instruments
US 3205753 A Luyben Robert L. 1965
Ligatures or reed-holders for single-reed musical wind instruments
US 3433113 A Portnoy Berbard A 1969
Ligature for a mouthpiece with a reed in a musical instrument
US 3521517 A Sato Fusao 1970
Ligature for single reed woodwind musical instrument
US 3618440 ARatteree Jackie Leo 1971
Ligature for reed musical instrument
US 3564965 A Carlini James A, Shetler Daniel W. 1971
Ligature
US 3890873 A Harrison Robert L. 1975
Adjustable ligature for musical instrument
US 4210055 A Vito Platamone jr. 1980
Ties for the mouthpiece of a wind instrument
US 4275636 A Bernard van Doren 1981
Saxophone mouthpiece having reed adjustment means
US 4372190 A Jay S. McGuerty 1983
O-ring ligature
US 4347776 A Kenneth G. Grass, Tommy R. Stout 1982
Mouthpiece system for woodwind instruments
US 5018425 A Phillips R. Rovner 1991
Mouthpiece for a single-reed woodwind instrument
US 5192821 A Bradley Goldstein, Martin Goldstein 1993
Split ring ligature for a woodwind instrument
US 5289753 A Gustav J. Rieckhoff 1994.
For securing a reed to a mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument
US 5648623 A Steven Silverstein, Michael J. Heinrich 1997
Woodwind reed ligature with raised dimples
US D390249 S Jonathan Clayton Smith1998
Multi-tonal ligature
US 5998715 A Phillip L. Rovner 1999
Ligature for the mouthpiece of a woodwind musical instrument
WO 1999067773 A1 John J. Consoli 1999
Ligature for the mouthpiece of a reed wind instrument
US 5973245 A Bernard van Doren 1999
Ligature with mesh band for musical instruments
US D404755 S Oleg Garbuzov 1999
Ligature for reed instruments
US 6130376 A Sun-Hwa Chang 2000
Ligature for the mouthpiece of a woodwind musical instrument
US 6020545 A John J. Consoli 2000
Ligatures for reed instruments
WO 2004109653 A2 Martin Tow 2004
Ligature for fixing a reed on the mouthpiece of a wind instrument
WO 2006016061 B1 Canac Alain, Serriere-Gerard Alain 2006
Reed mount for woodwind mouthpiece
US 7220903 B1 Andrew Broonen 2007
Tube sheet holding means for wood wind instruments with a single reed
DE 202007004029 U1 Nikolaev Alexander 2007
Mouthpiece for single reed woodwind instrument
US 7638700 B1 David G. Heintz 2009
Mouthpiece assembly for saxophone and other similar instruments
US 7473832 B2 Allen Theodore Wanne 2009
Single reed woodwind musical instrument mouthpiece apparatus and method
US 7655852 B2 George V, Sullivan 2010
Wind instrument ligature
US 7763787 B2 Marc Jean 2010
Universal ligature suitable for many instruments
US 7737350 B2 Allen Theodore Wanne 2010
Mass-loaded ligature for woodwind instruments
US 7863509 B2 Phillip Lee Rovner 2011
Ligature for woodwind instruments
US 7939738 B2 Phillip Lee Rovner 2011
“Eclipse ligature” for single reed musical instruments
US 7923618 B2 James Gholson 2011
Ligature for woodwind instruments
US 8283541 B2 Phillip Lee Rovner 2012
Ligature for the mouthpieces of single-reed wind instruments
US 20120085218 A1 Florian Popa Tudor 2012
Ligature
US8217248 B1 Roberto Feliciano Rolon 2012
Mouthpiece for Woodwind Instrument with Improved Ligature
US 20130239775 A1 Gary Spears, John V. Cavanaugh, Ellen J. Cavanoagh, Ronald Van Ostenbridge 2013