C06
Explosives
Official title: Explosives; matches
C06 (Explosives) appears on 4,588 US grants and 2,083 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C06- Granted patents
- 4,588
- Published applications
- 2,083
- Assignees
- 1,198
- Inventors
- 6,435
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 184 | 0 |
| 1977 | 141 | 0 |
| 1978 | 122 | 0 |
| 1979 | 67 | 0 |
| 1980 | 94 | 0 |
| 1981 | 73 | 0 |
| 1982 | 86 | 0 |
| 1983 | 108 | 0 |
| 1984 | 94 | 0 |
| 1985 | 78 | 0 |
| 1986 | 62 | 0 |
| 1987 | 96 | 0 |
| 1988 | 83 | 0 |
| 1989 | 85 | 0 |
| 1990 | 112 | 0 |
| 1991 | 135 | 0 |
| 1992 | 75 | 0 |
| 1993 | 84 | 0 |
| 1994 | 67 | 0 |
| 1995 | 131 | 0 |
| 1996 | 171 | 0 |
| 1997 | 122 | 0 |
| 1998 | 136 | 0 |
| 1999 | 101 | 0 |
| 2000 | 132 | 0 |
| 2001 | 129 | 35 |
| 2002 | 105 | 84 |
| 2003 | 129 | 122 |
| 2004 | 96 | 118 |
| 2005 | 91 | 105 |
| 2006 | 54 | 90 |
| 2007 | 20 | 64 |
| 2008 | 33 | 69 |
| 2009 | 31 | 101 |
| 2010 | 72 | 89 |
| 2011 | 112 | 90 |
| 2012 | 109 | 91 |
| 2013 | 97 | 88 |
| 2014 | 77 | 89 |
| 2015 | 75 | 97 |
| 2016 | 82 | 93 |
| 2017 | 89 | 92 |
| 2018 | 84 | 87 |
| 2019 | 92 | 93 |
| 2020 | 71 | 75 |
| 2021 | 77 | 68 |
| 2022 | 49 | 56 |
| 2023 | 54 | 44 |
| 2024 | 46 | 65 |
| 2025 | 37 | 40 |
| 2026 | 38 | 38 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subclasses
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Chemical composition for electronically activated chemical rock breaking system6 Oct 2026US 12,753,130 B2Tock Kaya Kirma Teknolojileri Limited Sirketi
- Hybrid rocket engine fuel grains with radial energy compositional variations6 Oct 2026US 12,753,131 B2Firehawk Aerospace, Inc.
- Methodology for designing millimeter-wave simulants with low loss powders6 Oct 2026US 12,754,283 B2The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
- Thruster propellants15 Sep 2026US 12,735,368 B2The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
- Propellant charge1 Sep 2026US 12,723,009 B2Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappeliijkonderzoek TNO
- Ignition formulation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308080 A1Raindance Systems Pty Ltd.
- Composite Solid Propellant Compositions and Methods of Production and Use Thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296991 A1The Board of Regents for the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges
- Energetic ink24 Sep 2026US 2026/0285780 A1U.S. Army DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory
- Thermally-Expandable Microspheres in Explosives and Propellants for Tunable Detonation and Deflagration Control17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274767 A1
- Systems for delivering explosives and methods related thereto17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276360 A1Dyno Nobel Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Destruction of energetic materials1,020US 6,603,050 B2UXB International, Inc. · 2003
- Ultrashort pulse high repetition rate laser system for biological tissue processing480US 5,720,894 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1998
- Non-toxic, heavy-metal free sensitized explosive percussion primers and methods of preparing the same207US 8,206,522 B2Alliant Techsystems Inc. · 2012
- Nontoxic, noncorrosive phosphorus-based primer compositions and an ordnance element including the same207US 8,540,828 B2Alliant Techsystems Inc. · 2013
- Propellant compositions including stabilized red phosphorus, a method of forming same, and an ordnance element including the same206US 8,641,842 B2Alliant Techsystems Inc. · 2014