- All sections
- C - Chemistry; metallurgy
- C23C - Coating metallic material; coating material with metallic material; surface treatment of metallic material by diffusion into the surface, by chemical conversion or substitution; coating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering, by ion implantation or by chemical vapour deposition, in general
- C23C 18/32 - Coating with one of iron, cobalt or nickel; Coating with mixtures of phosphorus or boron with one of these metals
Patent holdings for IPC class C23C 18/32
Total number of patents in this class: 410
10-year publication summary
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52
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62
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55
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50
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57
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37
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22
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25
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29
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3
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| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
|
|---|---|---|
| Tokyo Electron Limited | 11599 |
13 |
| Atotech Deutschland GmbH | 586 |
9 |
| Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. | 14131 |
8 |
| Nikon Corporation | 7162 |
8 |
| Mitsubishi Electric Corporation | 43934 |
7 |
| BASF SE | 19740 |
6 |
| The Boeing Company | 19843 |
5 |
| TDK Corporation | 6306 |
5 |
| Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | 27812 |
5 |
| Lam Research Corporation | 4775 |
5 |
| The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. | 3486 |
5 |
| Alchimer | 52 |
5 |
| C. Uyemura & Co., Ltd. | 156 |
5 |
| MacDermid Acumen, Inc. | 162 |
5 |
| UACJ Corporation | 631 |
5 |
| Texas Instruments Incorporated | 19376 |
4 |
| Applied Materials, Inc. | 16587 |
4 |
| Eastman Kodak Company | 3444 |
4 |
| BYD Company Limited | 3700 |
4 |
| Global Graphene Group, Inc. | 246 |
4 |
| Other owners | 294 |