G01N 2291/0234
Metals
Official title: Metals, e.g. steel
G01N2291/0234 (Metals) appears on 358 US grants and 373 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01N- Granted patents
- 358
- Published applications
- 373
- Assignees
- 274
- Inventors
- 1,086
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 4 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 6 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 5 | 0 |
| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 5 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 4 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 6 | 1 |
| 2002 | 6 | 3 |
| 2003 | 5 | 2 |
| 2004 | 2 | 2 |
| 2005 | 2 | 5 |
| 2006 | 1 | 4 |
| 2007 | 4 | 3 |
| 2008 | 4 | 4 |
| 2009 | 1 | 8 |
| 2010 | 2 | 6 |
| 2011 | 8 | 5 |
| 2012 | 3 | 3 |
| 2013 | 3 | 7 |
| 2014 | 5 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 | 23 |
| 2016 | 5 | 16 |
| 2017 | 8 | 18 |
| 2018 | 21 | 34 |
| 2019 | 33 | 33 |
| 2020 | 33 | 34 |
| 2021 | 21 | 29 |
| 2022 | 31 | 41 |
| 2023 | 24 | 39 |
| 2024 | 26 | 15 |
| 2025 | 31 | 17 |
| 2026 | 9 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Flexible capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays25 Aug 2026US 12,714,404 B2The University of British Columbia
- Detection device, detection system, and propagating member25 Aug 2026US 12,716,868 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Measuring apparatus for measuring height of foreign substance in pipe28 Jul 2026US 12,693,114 B2Center for Advanced Meta-Materials
- Flexoelectric liquid crystal composition, liquid crystal element, laser inspection system, and method for analyzing test subject30 Jun 2026US 12,669,482 B2Tokyo University of Science Foundation
- Nondestructive testing system and method using reflected shear horizontal guided waves16 Jun 2026US 12,656,317 B2Ecole De Technologie Superieure
- Transformer stacked iron core elasticity matrix determination method and vibration analysis method, and non-transitory computer readable medium8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309681 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
- Robot for performing non-destructive evaluation of a weld1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298877 A1BAE SYSTEMS plc
- Transformer stacked iron core elasticity matrix determination method and vibration analysis method, and non-transitory computer readable medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298879 A1Jfe Steel Corporation
- Ai-enhanced acoustic analysis system for coin authenticity verification and counterfeit detection using convolutional neural networks and spectrogram processing1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301499 A1
- Systems and methods for synchronizing rotational and translational motion with ultrasonic measurements17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276598 A1Hexagon Technology AS
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for determining location of characteristics of a pipeline311US 6,243,657 B1PII North America, Inc. · 2001
- Non-destructive inspection, testing and evaluation systems for intact aircraft and components and method therefore105US 6,637,266 B12003
- Non-destructive inspection, testing and evaluation system for intact aircraft and components and method therefore95US 6,378,387 B1Aerobotics, Inc. · 2002
- Booted ultrasonic transducer91US 5,426,980 AGeneral Electric Company · 1995
- Non-destructive testing, in particular for pipes during manufacture or in the finished state88US 8,365,603 B2V & M France · 2013