B07C 5/34
Sorting according to other particular properties
Official title: Sorting according to other particular properties {(material testing per se G01N; quality control G07C3/14)}
B07C5/34 (Sorting according to other particular properties) appears on 2,802 US grants and 2,329 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B07C- Granted patents
- 2,802
- Published applications
- 2,329
- Assignees
- 1,488
- Inventors
- 5,266
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 32 | 0 |
| 1977 | 26 | 0 |
| 1978 | 25 | 0 |
| 1979 | 30 | 0 |
| 1980 | 33 | 0 |
| 1981 | 29 | 0 |
| 1982 | 28 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 36 | 7 |
| 2002 | 45 | 40 |
| 2003 | 30 | 48 |
| 2004 | 38 | 45 |
| 2005 | 29 | 46 |
| 2006 | 26 | 67 |
| 2007 | 31 | 44 |
| 2008 | 25 | 59 |
| 2009 | 53 | 40 |
| 2010 | 41 | 78 |
| 2011 | 35 | 47 |
| 2012 | 44 | 66 |
| 2013 | 55 | 85 |
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| 2015 | 94 | 113 |
| 2016 | 91 | 131 |
| 2017 | 92 | 117 |
| 2018 | 107 | 122 |
| 2019 | 126 | 140 |
| 2020 | 128 | 151 |
| 2021 | 108 | 122 |
| 2022 | 116 | 156 |
| 2023 | 122 | 134 |
| 2024 | 151 | 160 |
| 2025 | 143 | 128 |
| 2026 | 90 | 85 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B07C 5/342According to optical properties1,534
- B07C 5/3412According to a code applied to the object which indicates a property464
- B07C 5/344According to electric or electromagnetic properties334
- B07C 5/3404According to properties of containers or receptacles254
- B07C 5/3416According to radiation transmissivity165
- B07C 5/346According to radioactive properties83
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By later US patents
- Methods of fabricating polymeric structures incorporating microscale fluidic elements375US 6,123,798 ACaliper Technologies Corp. · 2000
- Highly automated agricultural production system352US 4,015,366 AAdvanced Decision Handling, Inc. · 1977
- Apparatus and method for priority processing of financial documents using video image capture324US 5,159,548 ABancTec, Inc. · 1992
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- Method and system for testing and sorting batteries206US 4,363,407 APolaroid Corporation · 1982