D06F 58/266
Microwave heating equipment
Official title: {Microwave heating equipment}
D06F58/266 (Microwave heating equipment) appears on 71 US grants and 60 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in D06F- Granted patents
- 71
- Published applications
- 60
- Assignees
- 23
- Inventors
- 105
- Latest grant
- 11 Nov 2025
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| 2025 | 2 | 5 |
| 2026 | 0 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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