A61H 23/0236
Using sonic waves
Official title: {using sonic waves, e.g. using loudspeakers}
A61H23/0236 (Using sonic waves) appears on 329 US grants and 520 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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