C23C 14/325
Electric arc evaporation
Official title: {Electric arc evaporation}
C23C14/325 (Electric arc evaporation) appears on 751 US grants and 873 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
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- 345
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 41 | 32 |
| 2026 | 26 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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