B23K 9/0956
Using sensing means
Official title: {using sensing means, e.g. optical}
B23K9/0956 (Using sensing means) appears on 853 US grants and 1,110 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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