C23C 14/0641
Nitrides
Official title: {Nitrides (C23C14/0617 takes precedence)}
C23C14/0641 (Nitrides) appears on 1,677 US grants and 1,935 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
- 1,677
- Published applications
- 1,935
- Assignees
- 748
- Inventors
- 3,558
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1993 | 19 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 26 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 31 | 0 |
| 1999 | 31 | 0 |
| 2000 | 40 | 0 |
| 2001 | 33 | 14 |
| 2002 | 18 | 41 |
| 2003 | 34 | 35 |
| 2004 | 20 | 44 |
| 2005 | 25 | 40 |
| 2006 | 22 | 45 |
| 2007 | 24 | 52 |
| 2008 | 17 | 55 |
| 2009 | 15 | 60 |
| 2010 | 42 | 58 |
| 2011 | 44 | 64 |
| 2012 | 52 | 104 |
| 2013 | 64 | 72 |
| 2014 | 66 | 81 |
| 2015 | 55 | 111 |
| 2016 | 71 | 103 |
| 2017 | 76 | 102 |
| 2018 | 81 | 115 |
| 2019 | 88 | 102 |
| 2020 | 100 | 127 |
| 2021 | 77 | 95 |
| 2022 | 84 | 102 |
| 2023 | 68 | 91 |
| 2024 | 76 | 99 |
| 2025 | 92 | 84 |
| 2026 | 53 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Coated cutting tool with an alternating layer composition6 Oct 2026US 12,752,344 B2Walter AG
- Wear resistant coating produced from at least two different AlCr-based targets6 Oct 2026US 12,753,484 B2Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, PfäFfikon
- Surface-coated cutting tool29 Sep 2026US 12,746,604 B2Mitsubishi Materials Corporation
- Cutting tool8 Sep 2026US 12,728,456 B2Seco Tools AB
- Film forming method, film forming device, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device8 Sep 2026US 12,729,423 B2Tokyo Electron Limited
- Cutting tool1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295681 A1Sumitomo Electric Hardmetal Corp.
- Attachment device for installing on a structure, aircraft or spacecraft, and method for manufacturing an attachment device for installing on a structure1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298274 A1Airbus Operations GmbH
- Orthopedic implants with increased hardness and increased depth of hardness and method of making17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273134 A1Waldemar Link GmbH & Co. KG
- Cemented carbide, coated cemented carbide, and tool having the same27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250806 A1Tungaloy Corporation
- Coated plastic or metal substrate and method for producing a metal-looking coating27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250830 A1Barnem Tecnologie Plastiche S.R.L. (50%)
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for providing a conductive, amorphous non-stick coating536US 6,270,831 B1MedQuest Products, Inc. · 2001
- Method for coated surgical instruments and tools423US 4,981,756 AVac-Tec Systems, Inc. · 1991
- Forming tin thin films using remote activated specie generation418US 6,071,572 AAPPLIED Materials.Inc. · 2000
- Step coverage and overhang improvement by pedestal bias voltage modulation330US 5,976,327 AAPPLIED Materials.Inc. · 1999
- Heat treatable low-E coated articles and methods of making same275US 6,576,349 B2Centre Luxembourgeois de Recherches pour le Verra et la Ceramique S.A.(C.R.V.C.) · 2003