C03B 18/18
Controlling or regulating the temperature of the float bath
Official title: Controlling or regulating the temperature of the float bath; Composition or purification of the float bath
C03B18/18 (Controlling or regulating the temperature of the float bath) appears on 73 US grants and 49 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
- 73
- Published applications
- 49
- Assignees
- 26
- Inventors
- 168
- Latest grant
- 6 May 2025
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| 2024 | 5 | 4 |
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
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