From the FAA's standpoint is a type certificate issued per
application, or per device? Does a type certificate care who filed it
from a regulatory standpoint? (Not being flip, just trying to
understand how this works) By the sounds of it their are quality
control requirements that are also part of the TC. Obviously those
would have to be met independently.

There are no QA requirements associated with the TC ... that is what a
production certificate is for.

I read portions of it a while ago. My copy of the FAR is packed away
right now. Is this on the net somewhere?

www.faa.gov