F42B 12/367
Projectiles fragmenting upon impact without the use of explosives, the fragments creating
Official title: {Projectiles fragmenting upon impact without the use of explosives, the fragments creating a wounding or lethal effect (practice or training projectiles disintegrating upon impact F42B8/14; projectiles of high-explosive type with fragmentation-hull construction F42B12/22)}
F42B12/367 (Projectiles fragmenting upon impact without the use of explosives, the fragments creating) appears on 97 US grants and 110 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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