B22F 12/22
Driving means
Official title: {Driving means}
B22F12/22 (Driving means) appears on 723 US grants and 1,099 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B22F- Granted patents
- 723
- Published applications
- 1,099
- Assignees
- 335
- Inventors
- 1,757
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 4 |
| 2003 | 2 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 8 |
| 2005 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 7 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 5 |
| 2008 | 2 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 5 |
| 2010 | 8 | 8 |
| 2011 | 6 | 6 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4 |
| 2013 | 4 | 6 |
| 2014 | 3 | 19 |
| 2015 | 4 | 25 |
| 2016 | 11 | 43 |
| 2017 | 15 | 97 |
| 2018 | 22 | 100 |
| 2019 | 46 | 130 |
| 2020 | 89 | 144 |
| 2021 | 98 | 139 |
| 2022 | 114 | 120 |
| 2023 | 92 | 81 |
| 2024 | 91 | 69 |
| 2025 | 64 | 52 |
| 2026 | 20 | 23 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Lifting apparatus for a support device of an installation for additively manufacturing a three-dimensional workpiece6 Oct 2026US 12,752,485 B2Nikon SLM Solutions AG
- Chemical vapor deposition during additive manufacturing6 Oct 2026US 12,753,509 B2General Electric Company
- Methods and apparatus for additively manufactured endoskeleton-based transport structures29 Sep 2026US 12,746,706 B2Divergent Technologies, Inc.
- Additive and subtractive manufacturing machine22 Sep 2026US 12,741,322 B2Dmg Mori Co., Ltd.
- Additive manufacturing system with gas flow head25 Aug 2026US 12,715,072 B2VulcanForms Inc.
- Print bed for 3d printing1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295939 A1
- Actuator assemblies for additive manufacturing apparatuses and methods for using the same20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241638 A1General Electric Company
- Build material escapement assembly and additive manufacturing systems including same6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225311 A1General Electric Company
- Method for dispensing powder from an intermediate reservoir of a powder-bed fusion apparatus and a corresponding apparatus30 Jul 2026US 2026/0216793 A1SLM Solutions Group AG
- Layered structure manufacturing device and layered structure manufacturing method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0199975 A1Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Three-dimensional printing techniques1,084US 5,204,055 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1993
- Three-dimensional printing techniques723US 5,387,380 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1995
- Three-dimensional printing techniques380US 5,340,656 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1994
- Apparatus and method for producing parts with multi-directional powder delivery310US 5,252,264 ADTM Corporation · 1993
- Three dimensional printing system272US 5,807,437 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1998