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BHP BILLITON SSM DEV PTY LTD

Overview
  • Total Patents
    142
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    221,286
About

BHP BILLITON SSM DEV PTY LTD has a total of 142 patent applications. Its first patent ever was published in 2004. It filed its patents most often in Australia, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and China. Its main competitors in its focus markets materials and metallurgy, environmental technology and chemical engineering are COMPANHIA MINEIRA DE METAIS, BARRICK GOLD CORP and NORILSK NICKEL FINLAND OY.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing BHP BILLITON SSM DEV PTY LTDs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Liu Houyuan 38
#2 Roche Eric Girvan 29
#3 Judd Brian 16
#4 Houyuan Liu 15
#5 Senior Geoffery David 15
#6 Moroney Adam Sean 14
#7 Pyke Brendan 12
#8 Girvan Roche Eric 12
#9 Muller Harald Theowald 8
#10 Du Plessis Chris 8

Latest patents

Publication Filing date Title
CN104471088A Removal of ferric iron as hematite at atmospheric pressure
AU2010314803A1 Improved slope of an open cut mine
EP2370607A1 Process for separating limonite and saprolite
AU2009276286A1 Process for controlled homogeneous acid leaching
WO2010000029A1 A process for heap leaching of nickeliferous oxidic ores
CN102057063A Process for forming high density sulfides
WO2009155651A1 Iron precipitation
EP2294234A1 Process for the recovery of nickel and/or cobalt from a leach solution
WO2009152560A1 Saprolite neutralisation of heap leach process
AU2009201837A1 Atmospheric Leach of Laterite with Iron Precipitation as Hematite
AU2009201838A1 Counter Current Atmospheric Leach
AU2009230891A1 Odour control
WO2009114903A1 Process for the recovery of nickel and/or cobalt from high ferrous content laterite ores
AU2009225947A1 A process for atmospheric leaching of laterite ores using hypersaline leach solution
AU2009200219A1 Selective recovery of cobalt using permanganate
EP2242585A1 Processing nickel bearing sulphides
AU2009203904A1 Processing nickel bearing sulphides
CN101910428A Laterite heap leaching with ferrous lixiviants
WO2009079715A1 Selectively leaching cobalt from lateritic ores
AU2008261190A1 Method and apparatus for catalysed reduction of metal ions