A61B 2018/00101
Low, i.e. thermally insulating
Official title: {low, i.e. thermally insulating}
A61B2018/00101 (Low, i.e. thermally insulating) appears on 434 US grants and 529 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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