D06F 2105/52
Changing sequence of operational steps
Official title: Changing sequence of operational steps; Carrying out additional operational steps; Modifying operational steps, e.g. by extending duration of steps
D06F2105/52 (Changing sequence of operational steps) appears on 398 US grants and 561 published applications in this corpus.
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