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B82Y 40/00

Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures

Introduced: January 2011

Classification Context

Section:
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Class:
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Subclass:
SPECIFIC USES OR APPLICATIONS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MEASUREMENT OR ANALYSIS OF NANOSTRUCTURES; MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF NANOSTRUCTURES

Filing statistics

IPC B82Y 40/00 belongs to the parent subclass B82Y, which recorded 101,461 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 7,089 in 2013 to 10,265 in 2023 (+45%), peaking at 11,084 applications in 2020. The most active applicants in class B82 are CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (3,032 applications), SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY (711 applications) and ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (703 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

Related Keywords

manufacture or treatment of NANOSTRUCTURES

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class B82, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

  1. CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 3,032
  2. SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 711
  3. ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY 703
  4. SHAANXI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 641
  5. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION) US 620
  6. TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY 546
  7. JILIN UNIVERSITY 544
  8. SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY 525
  9. TIANJIN UNIVERSITY 524
  10. UNIVERSITY OF JINAN 521