C12M 45/04
Phase separators
Official title: {Phase separators; Separation of non fermentable material; Fractionation}
C12M45/04 (Phase separators) appears on 140 US grants and 174 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C12M- Granted patents
- 140
- Published applications
- 174
- Assignees
- 121
- Inventors
- 344
- Latest grant
- 23 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 4 | 7 |
| 2006 | 1 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2 | 4 |
| 2008 | 3 | 10 |
| 2009 | 2 | 5 |
| 2010 | 3 | 7 |
| 2011 | 3 | 15 |
| 2012 | 5 | 12 |
| 2013 | 9 | 14 |
| 2014 | 8 | 13 |
| 2015 | 12 | 12 |
| 2016 | 5 | 7 |
| 2017 | 12 | 10 |
| 2018 | 7 | 3 |
| 2019 | 6 | 8 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8 |
| 2021 | 3 | 6 |
| 2022 | 4 | 8 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 |
| 2025 | 2 | 3 |
| 2026 | 6 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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