B02C

Crushing, pulverising, or disintegrating in general

Official title: CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN ({household tools and machines for pulverising foodstuffs, e.g. coffee and spice mills A47J42/00; pharmaceutical mortars A61J3/02; mechanical processing of refuse and garbage B03B9/06; dressing mould materials by grinding B22C5/04}; obtaining metallic powder by crushing, grinding or milling B22F9/04; {recovery of plastics by disintegrating B29B17/00; crushing raw materials in starch making C08B30/02; beaters for papermaking D21D1/02; crushing devices specially for transport in mines E21F13/002; slag crushing devices F23J1/00; fuel milling devices in combustion apparatus F23K1/00; household devices for crushing coal F24B15/02; ice disintegrating devices F25C5/02})

B02C (Crushing, pulverising, or disintegrating in general) appears on 9,869 US grants and 8,013 published applications in this corpus.

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8,013
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4,312
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15,472
Latest grant
6 Oct 2026

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B02C: granted patents and published applications per publication year
YearGranted patentsPublished applications
19761690
19771670
19781700
19791220
19801570
19811210
19821010
19831170
1984840
19851120
19861540
19871600
19881410
19891530
19901600
19911570
19921390
19931770
19941660
19951640
19961730
19971690
19981940
19992150
20001510
200113031
2002150152
2003148154
2004111209
2005102220
2006150271
2007151247
2008150267
2009176288
2010230326
2011286306
2012233285
2013218443
2014291464
2015290470
2016346455
2017298367
2018222389
2019301365
2020428372
2021323375
2022278359
2023298367
2024316356
2025285287
2026165188

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