B41M 7/0072
After-treatment of prints: using mechanical wave energy
Official title: {using mechanical wave energy, e.g. ultrasonics; using magnetic or electric fields, e.g. electric discharge, plasma}
B41M7/0072 (After-treatment of prints: using mechanical wave energy) appears on 174 US grants and 225 published applications in this corpus.
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