C22B 34/12
Obtaining titanium or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by metallurgical processing
Official title: Obtaining titanium {or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by metallurgical processing; preparation of titanium compounds from other titanium compounds see C01G23/00 - C01G23/08}
C22B34/12 (Obtaining titanium or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by metallurgical processing) appears on 634 US grants and 499 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C22B- Granted patents
- 634
- Published applications
- 499
- Assignees
- 356
- Inventors
- 1,377
- Latest grant
- 7 Apr 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 21 | 0 |
| 1977 | 12 | 0 |
| 1978 | 22 | 0 |
| 1979 | 17 | 0 |
| 1980 | 10 | 0 |
| 1981 | 19 | 0 |
| 1982 | 13 | 0 |
| 1983 | 6 | 0 |
| 1984 | 19 | 0 |
| 1985 | 16 | 0 |
| 1986 | 12 | 0 |
| 1987 | 9 | 0 |
| 1988 | 12 | 0 |
| 1989 | 8 | 0 |
| 1990 | 10 | 0 |
| 1991 | 12 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 15 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 10 | 0 |
| 1996 | 8 | 0 |
| 1997 | 8 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 12 | 0 |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 |
| 2001 | 12 | 5 |
| 2002 | 13 | 12 |
| 2003 | 8 | 22 |
| 2004 | 14 | 34 |
| 2005 | 12 | 30 |
| 2006 | 8 | 33 |
| 2007 | 9 | 27 |
| 2008 | 15 | 42 |
| 2009 | 24 | 31 |
| 2010 | 23 | 24 |
| 2011 | 22 | 17 |
| 2012 | 12 | 24 |
| 2013 | 11 | 25 |
| 2014 | 27 | 15 |
| 2015 | 14 | 17 |
| 2016 | 15 | 14 |
| 2017 | 13 | 10 |
| 2018 | 13 | 22 |
| 2019 | 15 | 13 |
| 2020 | 8 | 9 |
| 2021 | 12 | 11 |
| 2022 | 9 | 15 |
| 2023 | 4 | 13 |
| 2024 | 9 | 16 |
| 2025 | 13 | 7 |
| 2026 | 3 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- C22B 34/1263Obtaining metallic titanium from titanium compounds203
- C22B 34/1236Obtaining titanium or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by wet processes162
- C22B 34/1204Preliminary treatment of ores or scrap to eliminate non- titanium constituents133
- C22B 34/1218Obtaining titanium or titanium compounds from ores or scrap by dry processes130
- C22B 34/1295Refining, melting, remelting, working up of titanium111
- C22B 34/129Obtaining metallic titanium from titanium compounds by dissociation68
Recent patents
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- Producing silica nanoparticles during mineral carbonation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296902 A1Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Method for recycling ceramic sintered body17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274670 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- A process for transition metal oxide reduction30 Jul 2026US 2026/0218323 A1Helios Project Ltd.
- Process for recovering materials from bauxite residue, microwave reactor for heating mining products and method for heating a mining product4 Jun 2026US 2026/0152407 A1New Wave Royalties Sociedad Anonima
- Carboaluminothermic reduction apparatus and methods of using23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110057 A1
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By later US patents
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- Thermal synthesis apparatus and process128US 6,821,500 B2Bechtel BWXT Idaho, LLC · 2004
- Plasma synthesis of metal oxide nanopowder and apparatus therefor89US 6,994,837 B2Tekna Plasma Systems Inc. · 2006