F25D 31/002
Liquid coolers
Official title: {Liquid coolers, e.g. beverage cooler (receptacle coolers F25D31/006)}
F25D31/002 (Liquid coolers) appears on 505 US grants and 576 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F25D- Granted patents
- 505
- Published applications
- 576
- Assignees
- 277
- Inventors
- 1,110
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2000 | 12 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 3 |
| 2002 | 15 | 12 |
| 2003 | 12 | 7 |
| 2004 | 6 | 11 |
| 2005 | 5 | 12 |
| 2006 | 10 | 17 |
| 2007 | 8 | 13 |
| 2008 | 7 | 16 |
| 2009 | 6 | 10 |
| 2010 | 5 | 22 |
| 2011 | 7 | 37 |
| 2012 | 4 | 9 |
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| 2015 | 16 | 32 |
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| 2017 | 22 | 49 |
| 2018 | 22 | 35 |
| 2019 | 32 | 40 |
| 2020 | 32 | 39 |
| 2021 | 33 | 38 |
| 2022 | 28 | 23 |
| 2023 | 15 | 30 |
| 2024 | 21 | 18 |
| 2025 | 25 | 25 |
| 2026 | 10 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Refrigerator22 Sep 2026US 12,742,139 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Beverage preparation machine and cooling module25 Aug 2026US 12,715,751 B2Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B. V.
- Frozen food dispensing system that limits internal clean-in-place operations4 Aug 2026US 12,696,910 B1Forte Supply LLC
- Cooling apparatus having increased cooling efficiency14 Jul 2026US 12,680,736 B2
- Beverage system for providing a cold beverage16 Jun 2026US 12,653,338 B2Societe des Produits Nestle S. A.
- Self-cleaning beverage dispenser apparatus and method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298527 A1Grad ApS
- Precooler Apparatus for Cooling Beerwort24 Sep 2026US 2026/0286259 A1Innovation Brewing, LLC.
- Precooler Apparatus for Cooling Beerwort24 Sep 2026US 2026/0286260 A1Innovation Brewing, LLC.
- Cold water tank assembly27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251383 A1Coway Co., Ltd.
- Retention device, ring and system for retaining carbon dioxide receptacle within a drinkware vessel16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202116 A1Roxi Group, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electronically controlled beverage dispenser105US 5,732,563 AIMI Cornelius Inc. · 1998
- Low cost beverage dispensing apparatus100US 5,280,711 AIMI Cornelius Inc. · 1994
- Beverage dispenser96US 5,368,198 AIMI Cornelius Inc. · 1994
- Beverage cooling and dispensing system with diagnostics95US 5,839,291 AMultiplex Company, Inc. · 1998
- Beverage dispenser95US 5,901,884 AIMI Cornelius Inc. · 1999