C03B 37/00
Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals
Official title: Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals, or slags
C03B37/00 (Manufacture or treatment of flakes, fibres, or filaments from softened glass, minerals) appears on 4,467 US grants and 3,272 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
- 4,467
- Published applications
- 3,272
- Assignees
- 1,021
- Inventors
- 6,214
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 61 | 0 |
| 1977 | 70 | 0 |
| 1978 | 73 | 0 |
| 1979 | 77 | 0 |
| 1980 | 98 | 0 |
| 1981 | 110 | 0 |
| 1982 | 112 | 0 |
| 1983 | 93 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 69 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 88 | 0 |
| 2001 | 98 | 46 |
| 2002 | 113 | 188 |
| 2003 | 136 | 214 |
| 2004 | 141 | 208 |
| 2005 | 102 | 188 |
| 2006 | 97 | 132 |
| 2007 | 66 | 135 |
| 2008 | 68 | 103 |
| 2009 | 46 | 108 |
| 2010 | 97 | 116 |
| 2011 | 89 | 105 |
| 2012 | 78 | 108 |
| 2013 | 83 | 102 |
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| 2015 | 86 | 113 |
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| 2017 | 103 | 114 |
| 2018 | 83 | 115 |
| 2019 | 80 | 137 |
| 2020 | 78 | 143 |
| 2021 | 93 | 119 |
| 2022 | 109 | 127 |
| 2023 | 112 | 134 |
| 2024 | 87 | 106 |
| 2025 | 95 | 106 |
| 2026 | 68 | 89 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Hollow core optical fibers and methods of making6 Oct 2026US 12,753,108 B2Corning Incorporated
- Optical fiber preform production method, optical fiber preform, and optical fiber production method29 Sep 2026US 12,747,183 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Hollow-core optical fibers22 Sep 2026US 12,742,925 B2Corning Incorporated
- Process of making multi-core fiber preform by integrating core rods and cladding cylinder15 Sep 2026US 12,735,344 B2Heraeus Quartz North America LLC
- Glass composition for producing high strength and high modulus fibers15 Sep 2026US 12,735,345 B2Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
- Method of manufacturing an optical fiber preform using air flow to remove debris generated during laser welding and system for performing the method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296947 A1Corning Incorporated
- Hollow-core preforms and hollow-core optical fibers and methods of making the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296948 A1Corning Incorporated
- High capacity bushing plate for producing igneous rock fibers1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296949 A1Rock Fiber, Inc.
- Laser welded glass article and method of manufacturing the same using a welding emission with beam waist separated from interface between glass components to be laser welded17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274735 A1Corning Incorporated
- Fiber preform with laser weld volume including ultraviolet absorbing constituent and method of manufacturing the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274736 A1Corning Incorporated
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multicore optical fibre354US 6,301,420 B1The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 2001
- Method and apparatus for supplying gaseous raw material349US 5,540,059 AShin-Etsu Quartz Products Co., Ltd. · 1996
- Article comprising a micro-structured optical fiber, and method of making such fiber283US 5,802,236 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 1998
- Method of manufacturing fluorine-doped optical fibers270US 4,468,413 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1984
- Relational database management system having integrated non-relational multi-dimensional data store of aggregated data elements251US 6,385,604 B1Hyperroll Israel, Ltd. · 2002