- All sections
- C - Chemistrymetallurgy
- C23C - Coating metallic materialcoating material with metallic materialsurface treatment of metallic material by diffusion into the surface, by chemical conversion or substitutioncoating by vacuum evaporation, by sputtering, by ion implantation or by chemical vapour deposition, in general
- C23C 18/12 - Chemical coating by decomposition of either liquid compounds or solutions of the coating forming compounds, without leaving reaction products of surface material in the coatingContact plating by thermal decomposition characterised by the deposition of inorganic material other than metallic material
Patent holdings for IPC class C23C 18/12
Total number of patents in this class: 1159
10-year publication summary
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Principal owners for this class
| Owner |
All patents
|
This class
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|---|---|---|
| Evonik Degussa GmbH | 1542 |
25 |
| Merck Patent GmbH | 5850 |
23 |
| Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique | 10321 |
21 |
| The Boeing Company | 20013 |
20 |
| EPG (engineered Nanoproducts Germany) AG | 41 |
16 |
| Mitsubishi Materials Corporation | 2431 |
13 |
| Chemetall GmbH | 378 |
12 |
| Centre National de La Recherche Scientifique (cnrs) | 3124 |
12 |
| Siemens AG | 24561 |
11 |
| Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux energies alternatives | 10837 |
11 |
| Henkel AG & Co. KGaA | 10451 |
11 |
| LG Chem, Ltd. | 17561 |
10 |
| Corning Incorporated | 10240 |
10 |
| Atotech Deutschland GmbH | 560 |
10 |
| Industrial Technology Research Institute | 5026 |
9 |
| Safran Aircraft Engines | 6237 |
9 |
| Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III | 478 |
9 |
| General Electric Company | 13829 |
8 |
| Industrie de Nora S.p.A. | 276 |
8 |
| SEB S.A. | 1623 |
8 |
| Other owners | 903 |