C23C 14/04
Coating on selected surface areas
Official title: Coating on selected surface areas, e.g. using masks
C23C14/04 (Coating on selected surface areas) appears on 3,071 US grants and 4,109 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
- 3,071
- Published applications
- 4,109
- Assignees
- 1,131
- Inventors
- 6,840
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | 8 | 0 |
| 1978 | 8 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 10 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982 | 8 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 22 | 0 |
| 1998 | 36 | 0 |
| 1999 | 36 | 0 |
| 2000 | 57 | 0 |
| 2001 | 60 | 20 |
| 2002 | 68 | 60 |
| 2003 | 51 | 93 |
| 2004 | 51 | 91 |
| 2005 | 57 | 113 |
| 2006 | 30 | 102 |
| 2007 | 36 | 92 |
| 2008 | 40 | 92 |
| 2009 | 36 | 124 |
| 2010 | 81 | 118 |
| 2011 | 65 | 129 |
| 2012 | 73 | 139 |
| 2013 | 94 | 143 |
| 2014 | 140 | 187 |
| 2015 | 134 | 180 |
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| 2017 | 149 | 215 |
| 2018 | 109 | 196 |
| 2019 | 150 | 256 |
| 2020 | 177 | 253 |
| 2021 | 169 | 287 |
| 2022 | 163 | 240 |
| 2023 | 182 | 215 |
| 2024 | 162 | 218 |
| 2025 | 168 | 197 |
| 2026 | 93 | 156 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method of fabricating metal mask6 Oct 2026US 12,752,329 B2Darwin Precisions Corporation
- Mask assembly and deposition apparatus for display device including the same29 Sep 2026US 12,747,490 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Tubular sputter cathode29 Sep 2026US 12,747,491 B2BüHler Alzenau GmbH
- Optical integrated device and manufacturing method of the same22 Sep 2026US 12,742,235 B2Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Mask assembly and mask assembly manufacturing method15 Sep 2026US 12,735,783 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Deposition mask, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic device manufactured by using the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308743 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Deposition mask, method of fabricating the same, method of manufacturing display device using the same and electronic device including the display device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308744 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Deposition apparatus, thin-film deposition method using the same, and electronic apparatus manufactured using the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308749 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Computer Implemented Method for Predicting a Level of Quality of a Vacuum into a Vacuum Chamber of a Coating Machine, and Corresponding Device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308751 A1Essilor International
- Deposition mask, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic device manufactured by using the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297722 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process and apparatus for organic vapor jet deposition1,318US 7,431,968 B1The Trustees of Princeton University · 2008
- Stationary aperture plate for reactive sputter deposition566US 5,415,753 AMaterials Research Corporation · 1995
- Method of selective coverage of high aspect ratio structures with a conformal film498US 7,625,820 B1Novellus Systems, Inc. · 2009
- Alumina insulation for coating implantable components and other microminiature devices490US 6,043,437 AAlfred E. Mann Foundation · 2000
- Method of forming polycrystalline silicon layer and atomic layer deposition apparatus used for the same469US 8,048,783 B2Samsung Mobile Display Co., Ltd. · 2011