B07C 5/342
According to optical properties
Official title: according to optical properties, e.g. colour {(according to radiation transmittivity B07C5/3416)}
B07C5/342 (According to optical properties) appears on 1,534 US grants and 1,402 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B07C- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,402
- Assignees
- 867
- Inventors
- 2,900
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 14 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 14 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 18 | 0 |
| 1981 | 14 | 0 |
| 1982 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 19 | 0 |
| 2000 | 23 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 5 |
| 2002 | 21 | 16 |
| 2003 | 20 | 18 |
| 2004 | 13 | 25 |
| 2005 | 12 | 15 |
| 2006 | 13 | 27 |
| 2007 | 14 | 19 |
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| 2015 | 51 | 70 |
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| 2019 | 83 | 89 |
| 2020 | 75 | 103 |
| 2021 | 70 | 74 |
| 2022 | 82 | 105 |
| 2023 | 79 | 99 |
| 2024 | 105 | 118 |
| 2025 | 107 | 86 |
| 2026 | 65 | 61 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Recent patents
- System and process for sorting and recovery of recyclable materials from mixed waste6 Oct 2026US 12,752,306 B1Wm Intellectual Property Holdings, L.L.C.
- System and method for materials recovery using a mobile materials recovery facility (MMRF)6 Oct 2026US 12,752,308 B2Wm Intellectual Property Holdings, L.L.C.
- Item inventory management system with vacuum-operated sorter6 Oct 2026US 12,752,310 B2eBay Inc.
- Methods and arrangements for identifying and sorting items29 Sep 2026US 12,746,577 B1Dmrc LLC
- Method and system for training a machine learning model for classification of components in a material stream29 Sep 2026US 12,746,578 B2Vito NV
- Sorter devices, detection systems of sorter devices, and related methods8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307110 A1Cimbria S.r.l.
- Measurement apparatus and sorter24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284709 A1Satake Corporation
- Systems and methods for analyzing and sorting treated seeds24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287513 A1Crc R&D, LLC
- Materials detector17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273582 A1Ishitva Robotic Systems Pvt Ltd
- Waste sorting system considering the characteristics of each waste disposal facility17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273583 A1Aetech Corporation
Most cited
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
- Sorting method and machine174US 4,232,861 AMaul Lochkartengerate GmbH · 1980
- Color sorting system and method168US 5,085,325 ASimco/Ramic Corporation · 1992
- Coincidence arbitration in a flow cytomery sorting system167US 4,981,580 ACoulter Corporation · 1991