C10M 159/00

Lubricating compositions characterised by the additive being of unknown or incompletely defined

Official title: Lubricating compositions characterised by the additive being of unknown or incompletely defined constitution (carboxylic acids with less than 30 carbon atoms in the chain, of unknown or incompletely defined constitution C10M129/56)

C10M159/00 (Lubricating compositions characterised by the additive being of unknown or incompletely defined) appears on 2,067 US grants and 905 published applications in this corpus.

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Granted patents: 2,067
Published applications: 905
Assignees: 440
Inventors: 2,678
Latest grant: 15 Sep 2026

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C10M 159/00: granted patents and published applications per publication year
Year	Granted patents	Published applications
1976	21	0
1977	21	0
1978	36	0
1979	36	0
1980	43	0
1981	37	0
1982	23	0
1983	34	0
1984	45	0
1985	42	0
1986	24	0
1987	38	0
1988	53	0
1989	59	0
1990	69	0
1991	75	0
1992	66	0
1993	84	0
1994	105	0
1995	83	0
1996	80	0
1997	76	0
1998	84	0
1999	55	0
2000	61	0
2001	52	11
2002	45	37
2003	41	30
2004	23	52
2005	22	33
2006	11	46
2007	13	38
2008	17	51
2009	24	44
2010	35	36
2011	48	38
2012	28	33
2013	37	40
2014	31	42
2015	34	34
2016	28	40
2017	33	55
2018	32	59
2019	31	50
2020	35	31
2021	22	16
2022	15	23
2023	20	16
2024	15	19
2025	14	18
2026	11	13

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