F26B 5/048
In combination with heat developed by electro-magnetic means
Official title: {in combination with heat developed by electro-magnetic means, e.g. microwave energy}
F26B5/048 (In combination with heat developed by electro-magnetic means) appears on 119 US grants and 88 published applications in this corpus.
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