B08B 3/02
Cleaning by the force of jets or sprays
B08B3/02 (Cleaning by the force of jets or sprays) appears on 4,128 US grants and 4,796 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B08B- Granted patents
- 4,128
- Published applications
- 4,796
- Assignees
- 2,137
- Inventors
- 9,341
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 23 | 0 |
| 1977 | 21 | 0 |
| 1978 | 13 | 0 |
| 1979 | 8 | 0 |
| 1980 | 13 | 0 |
| 1981 | 13 | 0 |
| 1982 | 18 | 0 |
| 1983 | 13 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 68 | 0 |
| 1997 | 48 | 0 |
| 1998 | 65 | 0 |
| 1999 | 88 | 0 |
| 2000 | 76 | 0 |
| 2001 | 70 | 20 |
| 2002 | 68 | 104 |
| 2003 | 87 | 112 |
| 2004 | 67 | 134 |
| 2005 | 74 | 149 |
| 2006 | 54 | 157 |
| 2007 | 77 | 131 |
| 2008 | 63 | 135 |
| 2009 | 66 | 128 |
| 2010 | 65 | 113 |
| 2011 | 76 | 131 |
| 2012 | 73 | 130 |
| 2013 | 89 | 145 |
| 2014 | 100 | 155 |
| 2015 | 135 | 201 |
| 2016 | 134 | 200 |
| 2017 | 192 | 252 |
| 2018 | 137 | 282 |
| 2019 | 189 | 275 |
| 2020 | 233 | 267 |
| 2021 | 176 | 285 |
| 2022 | 211 | 333 |
| 2023 | 239 | 289 |
| 2024 | 238 | 283 |
| 2025 | 263 | 234 |
| 2026 | 150 | 151 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical table cleaning devices and methods of cleaning optical tables6 Oct 2026US 12,752,312 B2KLA Corporation
- Countertop apparatus for washing articles6 Oct 2026US 12,752,313 B2Hillsborough Bay Group, LLC
- Method and apparatus for cleaning carrier film6 Oct 2026US 12,752,314 B2Neturen Co., Ltd.
- Wet cleaning tool and method6 Oct 2026US 12,757,668 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method6 Oct 2026US 12,757,674 B2Tokyo Electron Limited
- Self-cleaning system for a heat pump dryer8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308834 A1Whirlpool Corporation
- Environmentally safe ultra-high pressure surface cleaning system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295644 A1VAE Louisiana, LLC
- Systems and methods for vehicle license plate cleaning1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296378 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Automated cleaning system and device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296686 A1Cleanbotix, Inc.
- Mop bucket pump water cleaning mechanism and working method thereof24 Sep 2026US 2026/0283440 A1Gaobeidian Restar Electrical Applicances Manufacture Co., Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Substrate treatment method and substrate treatment apparatus473US 9,698,031 B2SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. · 2017
- Control apparatus for plane working robot223US 5,032,775 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1991
- Spin cleaning method179US 5,882,433 ATokyo Electron Limited · 1999
- Method for washing and drying substrates158US 5,997,653 ATokyo Electron Limited · 1999
- Robotic wash cell using recycled pure water157US 7,321,807 B2ABB AB · 2008