F26B 21/001
Air generating units
Official title: {Air generating units, e.g. movable or independent of drying enclosure}
F26B21/001 (Air generating units) appears on 273 US grants and 320 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F26B- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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