G02B 6/44384
The means comprising water blocking or hydrophobic materials
Official title: {the means comprising water blocking or hydrophobic materials (G02B6/4439, G02B6/4479 take precedence)}
G02B6/44384 (The means comprising water blocking or hydrophobic materials) appears on 655 US grants and 574 published applications in this corpus.
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