B23K 26/3576
Diminishing rugosity
Official title: {Diminishing rugosity, e.g. by grinding, polishing or smoothing}
B23K26/3576 (Diminishing rugosity) appears on 113 US grants and 156 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
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