C01B 6/15
Metal borohydrides
Official title: Metal borohydrides; Addition complexes thereof
C01B6/15 (Metal borohydrides) appears on 108 US grants and 138 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C01B- Granted patents
- 108
- Published applications
- 138
- Assignees
- 92
- Inventors
- 283
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 |
| 2026 | 2 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Sodium borohydride production method22 Sep 2026US 12,741,869 B2Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
- Metal hydride nanoparticles25 Aug 2026US 12,715,821 B2The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Methods of producing cobalt nanoparticles and hollow metal nanospheres30 Sep 2025US 12,427,197 B2The Regents of the University of California
- Sodium borohydride production method3 Jun 2025US 12,319,583 B2Nippon Light Metal Company, Ltd.
- Method for producing tetrahydroboric acid salt, device for producing tetrahydroboric acid salt, and tetrahydroboric acid salt15 Apr 2025US 12,275,643 B2Sintokogio, Ltd.
- Method for producing metal borohydride from metal boron oxide16 Jul 2026US 2026/0200730 A1H2Fuel-Systems B.V.
- Hydride ion conductor and preparation method thereof11 Jun 2026US 2026/0159387 A1Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
- Methods of Producing Cobalt Nanoparticles and Hollow Metal Nanospheres7 May 2026US 2026/0124304 A1
- Sodium borohydride production method26 Feb 2026US 2026/0054983 A1National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Method of producing a metal borohydride or boric acid from metal metaborate5 Jun 2025US 2025/0179658 A1H2Fuel Works B.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Compositions and processes for synthesizing borohydride compounds54US 6,433,129 B1Millennium Cell, Inc. · 2002
- Processes for synthesizing alkali metal borohydride compounds51US 6,586,563 B1Millennium Cell, Inc. · 2003
- Processes for synthesizing borohydride compounds46US 6,524,542 B2Millennium Cell, Inc. · 2003
- Processes for synthesizing borohydride compounds45US 6,670,444 B2Millennium Cell, Inc. · 2003
- Method of generating hydrogen by reaction of borohydrides and hydrates34US 6,821,499 B2General Motors Corporation · 2004