B08B 17/02
Preventing deposition of fouling or of dust
B08B17/02 (Preventing deposition of fouling or of dust) appears on 838 US grants and 1,046 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B08B- Granted patents
- 838
- Published applications
- 1,046
- Assignees
- 584
- Inventors
- 2,144
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 15 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Waste disposal system6 Oct 2026US 12,752,318 B2Blue Bagger, Inc.
- Shutter disc for a semiconductor processing tool6 Oct 2026US 12,753,488 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- System and method for prevention of corrosive biofilm formation in petroleum holding or carrying structures1 Sep 2026US 12,721,916 B2
- Processing apparatus1 Sep 2026US 12,722,187 B2Disco Corporation
- Apparatus for protecting an optical device from contamination25 Aug 2026US 12,717,130 B2ExcelSense Technologies Corp.
- Semiconductor process device and process chamber thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0305245 A1Beijing Naura Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd.
- Washing apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273597 A1Ebara Corporation
- Tandem vehicular maintenance of photovoltaic modules10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269778 A1
- Window cover cleaning system to an optical head of an optical air-data system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233859 A1Honeywell International Inc.
- Imaging apparatus2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186377 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System for manipulation of a body of fluid213US 7,328,979 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2008
- Apparatus and method for cleaning of semiconductor process chamber surfaces184US 5,788,799 AAPPLIED Materials.Inc. · 1998
- Surface topographies for non-toxic bioadhesion control146US 7,650,848 B2University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. · 2010
- Hydrophilic coating including DLC on substrate133US 6,303,225 B1Guardian Industries Corp. · 2001
- Hydrophobic coating including DLC on substrate118US 6,338,901 B12002