H01S 5/18327
Structure being part of a dbr
Official title: {Structure being part of a DBR (H01S5/18391 takes precedence)}
H01S5/18327 (Structure being part of a dbr) appears on 196 US grants and 229 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 11 | 11 |
| 2026 | 4 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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