C12M 33/02
Means for introduction, transport, positioning, extraction, harvesting, peeling or sampling of biological
Official title: {by impregnation, e.g. using swabs or loops (fluid transport using swabs B01L3/5029)}
C12M33/02 (Means for introduction, transport, positioning, extraction, harvesting, peeling or sampling of biological) appears on 154 US grants and 151 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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