A47L 11/405
Machines using uv-lamps, ir-lamps, ultrasound or plasma cleaning
Official title: {Machines using UV-lamps, IR-lamps, ultrasound or plasma cleaning}
A47L11/405 (Machines using uv-lamps, ir-lamps, ultrasound or plasma cleaning) appears on 72 US grants and 109 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A47L- Granted patents
- 72
- Published applications
- 109
- Assignees
- 48
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 19 May 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
- Method and apparatus for cleaning surfaces with plasma45US 5,236,512 AThiokol Corporation · 1993
- Ultraviolet sanitation device41US 8,029,739 B2Tennant Company · 2011
- Robot cleaner and method of controlling the same39US 10,993,598 B2LG Electronics Inc. · 2021
- Unattended spot cleaning with surface sanitization35US 8,549,697 B1BISSELL Homecare, Inc. · 2013
- Ultraviolet discharge lamp apparatuses with one or more reflectors29US 9,165,756 B2Xenex Disinfection Services Inc. · 2015