Y10S TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
Description
Y10S is a CPC tagging class that bridges historical USPC (United States Patent Classification) cross-reference art collection systems to the modern IPC/CPC framework. It serves as a residual category for technical subjects that were previously organized under USPC cross-reference digests but do not fit cleanly into standard IPC classifications. Patents assigned to Y10S typically address interdisciplinary or emerging technology areas that span multiple technical fields. This class is primarily used for archival and searching purposes rather than primary classification, helping practitioners locate patents originally classified under legacy USPC systems.
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Child Classifications
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- Y10S 100/00 Presses
- Y10S 101/00 Printing
- Y10S 102/00 Ammunition and explosives
- Y10S 104/00 Railways
- Y10S 106/00 Compositions: coating or plastic
- Y10S 108/00 Horizontally supported planar surfaces
- Y10S 111/00 Planting
- Y10S 112/00 Sewing
- Y10S 116/00 Signals and indicators
- Y10S 117/00 Single-crystal, oriented-crystal, and epitaxy growth processes; non-coating apparatus therefor
- Y10S 118/00 Coating apparatus
- Y10S 119/00 Animal husbandry
- Y10S 12/00 Boot and shoe making
- Y10S 122/00 Liquid heaters and vaporizers
- Y10S 123/00 Internal-combustion engines
- Y10S 124/00 Mechanical guns and projectors
- Y10S 125/00 Stone working
- Y10S 126/00 Stoves and furnaces
- Y10S 127/00 Sugar, starch, and carbohydrates
- Y10S 128/00 Surgery
Top Applicants
Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class Y10, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT
- BOEING COMPANY US 2,373
- FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES US 2,244
- HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY KR 2,186
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION JP 1,997
- 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY (MINNESOTA MINING AND MANUFACTURING INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY) US 1,837
- GE (GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY) US 1,794
- SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 1,705
- CORNING US 1,569
- TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION 1,403
- LG CHEM KR 1,364