B23K 9/0216
Seam profiling
Official title: {Seam profiling, e.g. weaving, multilayer}
B23K9/0216 (Seam profiling) appears on 139 US grants and 127 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B23K- Granted patents
- 139
- Published applications
- 127
- Assignees
- 83
- Inventors
- 372
- Latest grant
- 5 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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