A63F 9/0807
Requiring vacant positions or gap migration
Official title: {requiring vacant positions or gap migration, e.g. two-dimensional sliding puzzles}
A63F9/0807 (Requiring vacant positions or gap migration) appears on 46 US grants and 20 published applications in this corpus.
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