C22B 7/005
Separation by a physical processing technique only
Official title: {Separation by a physical processing technique only, e.g. by mechanical breaking}
C22B7/005 (Separation by a physical processing technique only) appears on 317 US grants and 516 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C22B- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Method for crushing cell37US 6,524,737 B1Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. · 2003