C23C 18/06
Coating on selected surface areas
Official title: Coating on selected surface areas, e.g. using masks
C23C18/06 (Coating on selected surface areas) appears on 207 US grants and 325 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
- 207
- Published applications
- 325
- Assignees
- 210
- Inventors
- 724
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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| 2004 | 12 | 18 |
| 2005 | 5 | 11 |
| 2006 | 7 | 21 |
| 2007 | 7 | 45 |
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| 2023 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 10 | 8 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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