B65H 2301/51
Modifying a characteristic of handled material
B65H2301/51 (Modifying a characteristic of handled material) appears on 2,789 US grants and 3,098 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B65H- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- B65H 2301/512Changing form of handled materialIndexing code1,005
- B65H 2301/515Cutting handled materialIndexing code603
- B65H 2301/511Processing surface of handled material upon transport or guiding thereofIndexing code433
- B65H 2301/516Securing handled material to another materialIndexing code303
- B65H 2301/513Modifying electric propertiesIndexing code296
- B65H 2301/514Modifying physical propertiesIndexing code276
- B65H 2301/517Drying materialIndexing code118
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