C11B 3/12
Refining fats or fatty oils: by distillation
Official title: by distillation
C11B3/12 (Refining fats or fatty oils: by distillation) appears on 386 US grants and 481 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C11B- Granted patents
- 386
- Published applications
- 481
- Assignees
- 264
- Inventors
- 924
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 5 | 0 |
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| 2003 | 4 | 7 |
| 2004 | 2 | 8 |
| 2005 | 4 | 10 |
| 2006 | 7 | 13 |
| 2007 | 2 | 6 |
| 2008 | 6 | 12 |
| 2009 | 11 | 7 |
| 2010 | 10 | 15 |
| 2011 | 9 | 15 |
| 2012 | 8 | 21 |
| 2013 | 11 | 27 |
| 2014 | 20 | 28 |
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| 2020 | 20 | 25 |
| 2021 | 20 | 28 |
| 2022 | 18 | 27 |
| 2023 | 19 | 38 |
| 2024 | 13 | 31 |
| 2025 | 19 | 18 |
| 2026 | 10 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- VE enrichment system22 Sep 2026US 12,741,233 B2Jj-Lurgi Engineering Equipment (Shanghai) Co. Ltd
- Stability of short path evaporation treated oils18 Aug 2026US 12,709,716 B2Cargill, Incorporated
- Lipid compositions comprising triacylglycerol with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids26 May 2026US 12,637,408 B2Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- Breast milk structured lipid simulating the composition of triglycerides and method for preparing the same5 May 2026US 12,616,218 B2
- Method for manufacturing refined edible oil and/or fat, method for improving light exposure odor of edible oil and/or fat, and refined edible oil and/or fat5 May 2026US 12,616,222 B2The Nisshin OilliO Group, Ltd.
- A process and apparatus for refining a vegetable oil8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308475 A1Intreft Pty Ltd
- Solvent vapors absorption system reducing contaminations8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308476 A1Desmet Belgium
- Camellia Oleifera Tea Oil Concentrate and Uses Thereof17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273012 A1
- Lipid comprising docosapentaenoic acid16 Jul 2026US 2026/0201267 A1Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- System and process for removal of toxic chemicals from vegetable oils16 Jul 2026US 2026/0201269 A1Vulcan Photonics Sdn. Bhd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method to produce highly pure eicosapentaenoic acid or its ester176US 5,840,944 ANippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. · 1998
- Methods for refining vegetable oils and byproducts thereof92US 6,172,248 B2IP Holdings, LLC · 2001
- Methods for treatment of edible oils75US 5,091,116 AKraft General Foods, Inc. · 1992
- Method of producing an oil extract from seeds of plants via a binary azeotropic solvent mixture71US 7,615,657 B2New Zealand Botanical Oils Ltd · 2009
- Physical process for the deodorization and/or cholesterol reduction of fats and oils51US 4,996,072 AGeneral Mills, Inc. · 1991