C02F 2103/08
Seawater
Official title: Seawater, e.g. for desalination
C02F2103/08 (Seawater) appears on 2,363 US grants and 3,506 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C02F- Granted patents
- 2,363
- Published applications
- 3,506
- Assignees
- 1,350
- Inventors
- 6,047
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 5 | 0 |
| 1979 | 6 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 5 | 0 |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1995 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 4 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 2 |
| 2002 | 15 | 21 |
| 2003 | 19 | 22 |
| 2004 | 20 | 37 |
| 2005 | 17 | 31 |
| 2006 | 18 | 31 |
| 2007 | 16 | 52 |
| 2008 | 20 | 56 |
| 2009 | 29 | 74 |
| 2010 | 37 | 106 |
| 2011 | 49 | 129 |
| 2012 | 43 | 155 |
| 2013 | 62 | 129 |
| 2014 | 95 | 180 |
| 2015 | 85 | 219 |
| 2016 | 106 | 225 |
| 2017 | 146 | 220 |
| 2018 | 157 | 200 |
| 2019 | 211 | 216 |
| 2020 | 189 | 209 |
| 2021 | 166 | 194 |
| 2022 | 167 | 218 |
| 2023 | 151 | 230 |
| 2024 | 170 | 222 |
| 2025 | 178 | 193 |
| 2026 | 86 | 135 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Hybrid system and method of waste heat utilization-based photovoltaic power generation and seawater desalination6 Oct 2026US 12,752,240 B2Xi' An Jiaotong University
- Preparation method of high-efficiency gel for seawater desalination6 Oct 2026US 12,752,249 B2Shanghai Maritime University
- Flow features for self-cleaning concentric tubular electrochemical cells6 Oct 2026US 12,753,096 B2Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
- Seawater desalination equipment29 Sep 2026US 12,746,486 B2Manzeon Co., Ltd.
- Method and apparatus for water processing29 Sep 2026US 12,746,520 B2
- Salt-rejecting continuous passive solar thermal desalination via thin-film condensation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307012 A1The Regents of the University of California
- Integrated Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement And Seawater Desalination8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308037 A1Ebb Carbon, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for confining the spread of pollutants spilled into a moving fluid8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308859 A1
- Device and system for water desalinization1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296926 A1
- Water intake filtration system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285705 A1
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