Y02P 40/00
Technologies relating to the processing of minerals
Y02P40/00 (Technologies relating to the processing of minerals) appears on 5,170 US grants and 4,867 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in Y02P- Granted patents
- 5,170
- Published applications
- 4,867
- Assignees
- 2,186
- Inventors
- 10,766
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 29 | 0 |
| 1977 | 40 | 0 |
| 1978 | 57 | 0 |
| 1979 | 26 | 0 |
| 1980 | 63 | 0 |
| 1981 | 71 | 0 |
| 1982 | 77 | 0 |
| 1983 | 52 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 82 | 0 |
| 1998 | 125 | 0 |
| 1999 | 106 | 0 |
| 2000 | 103 | 0 |
| 2001 | 114 | 40 |
| 2002 | 102 | 144 |
| 2003 | 109 | 162 |
| 2004 | 127 | 173 |
| 2005 | 68 | 148 |
| 2006 | 83 | 133 |
| 2007 | 64 | 155 |
| 2008 | 70 | 165 |
| 2009 | 79 | 172 |
| 2010 | 111 | 211 |
| 2011 | 116 | 218 |
| 2012 | 148 | 224 |
| 2013 | 146 | 205 |
| 2014 | 174 | 236 |
| 2015 | 191 | 249 |
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| 2017 | 189 | 232 |
| 2018 | 182 | 225 |
| 2019 | 176 | 234 |
| 2020 | 167 | 195 |
| 2021 | 150 | 243 |
| 2022 | 126 | 207 |
| 2023 | 190 | 246 |
| 2024 | 152 | 195 |
| 2025 | 168 | 119 |
| 2026 | 82 | 81 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Plunge pool25 Aug 2026US 12,716,254 B2Plungie IP Pty Ltd
- Phase-separated glass and preparation method thereof, tempered glass and preparation method thereof, housing of electronic device, display of electronic device, and electronic device11 Aug 2026US 12,703,656 B2Honor Device Co., Ltd.
- Glass substrate for high-frequency device and circuit board for high-frequency device11 Aug 2026US 12,703,657 B2AGC Inc.
- Nanoporous ceramic for atomization core and preparation method thereof11 Aug 2026US 12,703,664 B2Huizhou Happy Vaping Technology Limited
- Method for processing cullet using colorimetric analysis11 Aug 2026US 12,704,455 B2Saint-Gobain Isover
- Cementitious reagents, methods of manufacturing and uses thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0296966 A1Terra Co2 Technology Holdings, Inc.
- Optical device fabrication1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299366 A1View Operating Corporation
- Recovering a caustic solution via calcium carbonate crystal aggregates10 Sep 2026US 2026/0265074 A1Carbon Engineering ULC
- Forming tools for converting glass tubes into glass articles27 Aug 2026US 2026/0250176 A1Corning Incorporated
- Glass melting process with low co2 emission20 Aug 2026US 2026/0242269 A1Agc Glass Europe
Most cited
By later US patents
- Pneumatically operated mechanism1,103US 6,050,172 AEmhart Glass S. A. · 2000
- Method of refurbishing a quartz glass component469US 8,991,214 B2Techno Quartz Inc. · 2015
- Nanostructured fillers and carriers316US 6,228,904 B1Nanomaterials Research Corporation · 2001
- Laser processing method and laser processing apparatus293US 6,992,026 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. · 2006
- Transparent infrared absorbing glass and method of making291US 4,792,536 APPG Industries, Inc. · 1988