C23C 14/028
Physical treatment to alter the texture of the substrate surface
Official title: {Physical treatment to alter the texture of the substrate surface, e.g. grinding, polishing}
C23C14/028 (Physical treatment to alter the texture of the substrate surface) appears on 221 US grants and 266 published applications in this corpus.
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