C06B
Explosives or thermic compositions
Official title: EXPLOSIVES OR THERMIC COMPOSITIONS (blasting F42D); MANUFACTURE THEREOF; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS EXPLOSIVES (compounds in general C01, C07 or C08; {demolition agents based on cementitious or like materials C04B41/0009})
C06B (Explosives or thermic compositions) appears on 3,723 US grants and 1,634 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C06B- Granted patents
- 3,723
- Published applications
- 1,634
- Assignees
- 1,010
- Inventors
- 5,250
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 170 | 0 |
| 1977 | 127 | 0 |
| 1978 | 109 | 0 |
| 1979 | 58 | 0 |
| 1980 | 69 | 0 |
| 1981 | 66 | 0 |
| 1982 | 70 | 0 |
| 1983 | 95 | 0 |
| 1984 | 82 | 0 |
| 1985 | 70 | 0 |
| 1986 | 49 | 0 |
| 1987 | 69 | 0 |
| 1988 | 67 | 0 |
| 1989 | 75 | 0 |
| 1990 | 98 | 0 |
| 1991 | 115 | 0 |
| 1992 | 62 | 0 |
| 1993 | 74 | 0 |
| 1994 | 56 | 0 |
| 1995 | 105 | 0 |
| 1996 | 132 | 0 |
| 1997 | 93 | 0 |
| 1998 | 102 | 0 |
| 1999 | 72 | 0 |
| 2000 | 107 | 0 |
| 2001 | 100 | 27 |
| 2002 | 80 | 65 |
| 2003 | 101 | 90 |
| 2004 | 73 | 91 |
| 2005 | 74 | 79 |
| 2006 | 40 | 66 |
| 2007 | 10 | 44 |
| 2008 | 25 | 51 |
| 2009 | 27 | 93 |
| 2010 | 54 | 69 |
| 2011 | 95 | 75 |
| 2012 | 90 | 73 |
| 2013 | 78 | 63 |
| 2014 | 60 | 74 |
| 2015 | 55 | 69 |
| 2016 | 58 | 71 |
| 2017 | 67 | 72 |
| 2018 | 68 | 69 |
| 2019 | 72 | 76 |
| 2020 | 59 | 65 |
| 2021 | 64 | 55 |
| 2022 | 43 | 44 |
| 2023 | 40 | 35 |
| 2024 | 36 | 53 |
| 2025 | 31 | 33 |
| 2026 | 31 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
- C06B 45/00Compositions or products which are defined by structure or arrangement of component1,447
- C06B 21/00Apparatus or methods for working-up explosives935
- C06B 23/00Compositions characterised by non-explosive or non-thermic constituents659
- C06B 47/00Compositions in which the components are separately stored until the moment of640
- C06B 25/00Compositions containing a nitrated organic compound555
- C06B 33/00Compositions containing particulate metal, alloy, boron, silicon, selenium or tellurium with at419
- C06B 31/00Compositions containing an inorganic nitrogen-oxygen salt357
- C06B 43/00Compositions characterised by explosive or thermic constituents not provided for in groups224
All 15 main groupsShow fewer
- C06B 29/00Compositions containing an inorganic oxygen-halogen salt138
- C06B 27/00Compositions containing a metal, boron, silicon, selenium or tellurium or mixtures, intercompounds91
- C06B 35/00Compositions containing a metal azide66
- C06B 41/00Compositions containing a nitrated metallo-organic compound53
- C06B 39/00Compositions containing free phosphorus or a binary compound of phosphorus, except with27
- C06B 49/00Use of single substances as explosives25
- C06B 37/00Compositions containing a metal fulminate2
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
- 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.
- Process for obtaining ignition pastes in an acoustic resonance mixer27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250216 A1Eurenco France SAS
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