B42D 25/373
Metallic materials
B42D25/373 (Metallic materials) appears on 664 US grants and 839 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B42D- Granted patents
- 664
- Published applications
- 839
- Assignees
- 301
- Inventors
- 1,283
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 2 |
| 2003 | 3 | 4 |
| 2004 | 3 | 15 |
| 2005 | 3 | 18 |
| 2006 | 9 | 14 |
| 2007 | 5 | 28 |
| 2008 | 10 | 27 |
| 2009 | 5 | 19 |
| 2010 | 15 | 22 |
| 2011 | 15 | 29 |
| 2012 | 20 | 24 |
| 2013 | 18 | 19 |
| 2014 | 23 | 26 |
| 2015 | 25 | 25 |
| 2016 | 19 | 27 |
| 2017 | 14 | 41 |
| 2018 | 31 | 71 |
| 2019 | 56 | 59 |
| 2020 | 62 | 79 |
| 2021 | 55 | 63 |
| 2022 | 43 | 72 |
| 2023 | 34 | 45 |
| 2024 | 46 | 48 |
| 2025 | 57 | 32 |
| 2026 | 28 | 30 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Transfer security element material and value document comprising a security element6 Oct 2026US 12,752,567 B2Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
- Metallic foil card and manufacturing thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,752,568 B2Thales Dis France SAS
- Optical device and method of manufacture thereof22 Sep 2026US 12,741,478 B2De La Rue International Limited
- Standardization of taggant signatures using transfer images8 Sep 2026US 12,728,662 B2Microtrace, LLC
- Optical component of a security article25 Aug 2026US 12,715,235 B2Viavi Solutions Inc.
- Compositions, comprising silver nanoplatelets8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307149 A1BASF SE
- Optical security components, manufacture of such components and secure objects provided with such components8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307422 A1Surys
- Security element for a value document, having an optically variable primary surface pattern and concealed secondary surface pattern, and method for production thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307424 A1Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH
- Security feature24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285075 A1CCL Secure Pty Ltd
- Optical Anti-Counterfeiting Element and Optical Anti-Counterfeiting Product17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273986 A1China Banknote Printing and Minting Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Transparent reflection-type340US 4,856,857 ADai Nippon Insatsu Kabushiki Kaisha · 1989
- Credit card and method of making the same254US 4,897,533 ANational Business Systems, Inc. · 1990
- Integrated circuit device and manufacturing method thereof225US 5,122,860 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1992
- Alignable diffractive pigment flakes202US 6,902,807 B1Flex Products, Inc. · 2005
- Security paper with color mark145US 5,449,200 ADomtar Inc. · 1995