C23C 16/4418
Methods for making free-standing articles
Official title: {Methods for making free-standing articles (C23C16/01 takes precedence)}
C23C16/4418 (Methods for making free-standing articles) appears on 124 US grants and 158 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
- 124
- Published applications
- 158
- Assignees
- 108
- Inventors
- 328
- Latest grant
- 27 Jan 2026
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| 2024 | 7 | 5 |
| 2025 | 7 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Trussed structures for additive manufacturing and methods of formation thereof27 Jan 2026US 12,533,850 B2Orca Sciences LLC
- Multifunctional deposition nozzle for additive manufacturing6 Jan 2026US 12,515,403 B1ATLANT 3D, ApS
- Additive manufacturing process for producing a structure30 Dec 2025US 12,509,767 B2Safran Ceramics
- Film-forming method28 Oct 2025US 12,456,620 B2Tokyo Electron Limited
- Seed layer, a heterostructure comprising the seed layer and a method of forming a layer of material using the seed layer30 Sep 2025US 12,431,350 B2National University of Singapore
- Doped polycrystalline sic wafer with improved flatness and electrical conductivity, and method for producing such a wafer20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242976 A1Mersen France Gennevilliers SAS
- Composite structure comprising a monocrystalline thin film on a polycrystalline silicon carbide support substrate, and associated production method23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209991 A1
- Trussed structures for additive manufacturing and methods of formation thereof30 Apr 2026US 2026/0116008 A1Orca Sciences LLC
- Trussed structures for additive manufacturing and methods of formation thereof15 Jan 2026US 2026/0014624 A1Orca Sciences LLC
- Trussed structures for additive manufacturing and methods of formation thereof15 Jan 2026US 2026/0014756 A1Orca Sciences LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Process for Polycrystalline film silicon growth529US 6,281,098 B1Midwest Research Institute · 2001
- Process for the deposition of pure semiconductor material372US 4,179,530 AWacker-Chemitronic Gesellschaft fur Elektronik-Grundstoffe mbH · 1979
- Positioning, focusing and monitoring of gas phase selective beam deposition109US 5,135,695 ABoard of Regents, The University of Texas System · 1992
- Fabrication of diamond and diamond-like carbon coatings93US 5,731,046 AQQC, Inc. · 1998
- Substrate coating techniques, including fabricating materials on a surface of a substrate81US 5,554,415 AQQC, Inc. · 1996