B33Y 40/00
Auxiliary operations or equipment
Official title: Auxiliary operations or equipment, e.g. for material handling
B33Y40/00 (Auxiliary operations or equipment) appears on 4,967 US grants and 8,258 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B33Y- Granted patents
- 4,967
- Published applications
- 8,258
- Assignees
- 2,007
- Inventors
- 12,746
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 5 | 0 |
| 1992 | 8 | 0 |
| 1993 | 8 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
| 1995 | 8 | 0 |
| 1996 | 15 | 0 |
| 1997 | 16 | 0 |
| 1998 | 13 | 0 |
| 1999 | 15 | 0 |
| 2000 | 11 | 0 |
| 2001 | 15 | 8 |
| 2002 | 10 | 18 |
| 2003 | 18 | 22 |
| 2004 | 17 | 57 |
| 2005 | 19 | 25 |
| 2006 | 30 | 25 |
| 2007 | 33 | 40 |
| 2008 | 20 | 45 |
| 2009 | 22 | 36 |
| 2010 | 39 | 40 |
| 2011 | 38 | 48 |
| 2012 | 40 | 32 |
| 2013 | 33 | 42 |
| 2014 | 28 | 43 |
| 2015 | 29 | 113 |
| 2016 | 53 | 183 |
| 2017 | 87 | 338 |
| 2018 | 123 | 468 |
| 2019 | 204 | 641 |
| 2020 | 325 | 830 |
| 2021 | 514 | 1072 |
| 2022 | 649 | 1102 |
| 2023 | 721 | 936 |
| 2024 | 719 | 866 |
| 2025 | 690 | 685 |
| 2026 | 382 | 543 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Preceramic polymer printing binders for advanced ceramics6 Oct 2026US 12,753,123 B2University of Tennessee Research Foundation
- Chemical vapor deposition during additive manufacturing6 Oct 2026US 12,753,509 B2General Electric Company
- Method for producing a partially recycled polyaryletherketone powder by sintering29 Sep 2026US 12,746,718 B2Arkema France
- System and method for additive manufacturing of an object with foam infill material29 Sep 2026US 12,746,719 B2Accenture Global Solutions Limited
- AI enabled 3D printing for controlled microstructure through insulation integration29 Sep 2026US 12,746,727 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Double networked 3d-printed biomaterials8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306707 A1The Brigham and Women S Hospital, Inc.
- Additive manufacturing deposition head with substantially surrounding compaction surface for poly-directional deposition8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307272 A1Electroimpact, Inc.
- Multi-channeled and guided inner controlling (magic) printheads8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307330 A1Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
- Modular Storage Device and Filament Outlet8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307331 A1FabNotion Limited
- Performance of materials generated via conventional additive manufacturing through solvent induced expansion annealing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307333 A1The University of Southern Mississippi
Most cited
By later US patents
- Three-dimensional printing techniques1,084US 5,204,055 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1993
- Apparatus and method for creating three-dimensional objects880US 5,121,329 AStratasys, Inc. · 1992
- Modeling apparatus for three-dimensional objects645US 5,340,433 AStratasys, Inc. · 1994
- Fabricating multi-part assemblies597US 9,815,118 B1Desktop Metal, Inc. · 2017
- Apparatus and method for three dimensional model printing500US 6,259,962 B1Objet Geometries Ltd. · 2001