involving particular fabrication steps or treatments of ingots or slabs

involving particular fabrication steps or treatments of ingots or slabs · Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)

Chemical and metallurgical processes, compounds, and materials.

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CPC classification statistics
MetricValue
CPC codeC21D8/021
Official titleinvolving particular fabrication steps or treatments of ingots or slabs
Display labelinvolving particular fabrication steps or treatments of ingots or slabs
Total patents345

Filing trend

Year-over-year patent counts classified under this CPC code.

Filing activity over the last five years is rapidly growing.

Patents filed per year
YearPatents
201511
201615
201715
201812
201918
202026
202120
202250
202349
202445
202568
202616

Representative patents

Representative publications under this CPC code from precomputed stats, or recent filings when stats are unavailable.

Frequently asked questions

Answers are generated from the same data shown on this page.

What is CPC C21D8/021?
CPC C21D8/021 is the Cooperative Patent Classification code for “involving particular fabrication steps or treatments of ingots or slabs.”
How many patents are filed under CPC C21D8/021 (involving particular fabrication steps or treatments of ingots or slabs)?
Our database includes 345 publications tagged with this CPC code.
Is patent activity under CPC C21D8/021 growing?
Publication counts under this code: 45 in 2024 vs 68 in 2025 (latest complete years).