B60L 8/003
Converting light into electric energy
Official title: {Converting light into electric energy, e.g. by using photo-voltaic systems}
B60L8/003 (Converting light into electric energy) appears on 725 US grants and 1,052 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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