B81C 1/00436

Shaping materials, i.e. techniques for structuring the substrate or the layers on

Official title: {Shaping materials, i.e. techniques for structuring the substrate or the layers on the substrate}

B81C1/00436 (Shaping materials, i.e. techniques for structuring the substrate or the layers on) appears on 1,498 US grants and 1,736 published applications in this corpus.

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Latest grant: 6 Oct 2026

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Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1982	1	0
1983	0	0
1984	0	0
1985	0	0
1986	0	0
1987	0	0
1988	0	0
1989	1	0
1990	0	0
1991	0	0
1992	0	0
1993	2	0
1994	3	0
1995	2	0
1996	6	0
1997	5	0
1998	10	0
1999	11	0
2000	13	0
2001	20	9
2002	18	33
2003	30	46
2004	39	78
2005	54	85
2006	48	91
2007	52	66
2008	47	67
2009	42	53
2010	51	63
2011	48	73
2012	46	56
2013	55	80
2014	91	105
2015	88	111
2016	100	108
2017	75	80
2018	90	89
2019	73	74
2020	89	86
2021	85	82
2022	58	48
2023	48	40
2024	43	43
2025	33	41
2026	21	29

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