B23K 26/067
Dividing the beam into multiple beams
Official title: Dividing the beam into multiple beams, e.g. multi-focusing
B23K26/067 (Dividing the beam into multiple beams) appears on 1,166 US grants and 1,347 published applications in this corpus.
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