B23K 26/60
Preliminary treatment
B23K26/60 (Preliminary treatment) appears on 406 US grants and 608 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 406
- Published applications
- 608
- Assignees
- 374
- Inventors
- 1,580
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1987 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 6 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 5 | 7 |
| 2003 | 5 | 5 |
| 2004 | 6 | 9 |
| 2005 | 3 | 13 |
| 2006 | 6 | 15 |
| 2007 | 3 | 13 |
| 2008 | 2 | 12 |
| 2009 | 2 | 18 |
| 2010 | 7 | 17 |
| 2011 | 14 | 10 |
| 2012 | 6 | 12 |
| 2013 | 5 | 10 |
| 2014 | 12 | 16 |
| 2015 | 10 | 32 |
| 2016 | 4 | 27 |
| 2017 | 22 | 45 |
| 2018 | 12 | 36 |
| 2019 | 26 | 49 |
| 2020 | 41 | 44 |
| 2021 | 30 | 42 |
| 2022 | 32 | 48 |
| 2023 | 22 | 48 |
| 2024 | 23 | 34 |
| 2025 | 34 | 25 |
| 2026 | 21 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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