C22B 47/0018
Treating ocean floor nodules
Official title: {Treating ocean floor nodules}
C22B47/0018 (Treating ocean floor nodules) appears on 124 US grants and 88 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C22B- Granted patents
- 124
- Published applications
- 88
- Assignees
- 103
- Inventors
- 321
- Latest grant
- 4 Nov 2025
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| 2022 | 2 | 8 |
| 2023 | 3 | 13 |
| 2024 | 8 | 13 |
| 2025 | 9 | 11 |
| 2026 | 0 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for separating metal constituents from ocean floor nodules46US 4,042,664 ADeepsea Ventures, Inc. · 1977
- Process for producing electrolytic manganese dioxide from geothermal brines38US 6,682,644 B2MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company · 2004
- Extraction of metals from sea nodules33US 4,029,733 ACommissariat A L' Energie Atomique · 1977
- Process for recovering metal values such as scandium, iron and manganese from an industrial waste sludge27US 4,988,487 AGTE Laboratories Incorporated · 1991
- Manganese nitrate spray decomposition19US 4,310,494 AChemetals Corporation · 1982