F16P 3/144
Using light grids
Official title: {using light grids}
F16P3/144 (Using light grids) appears on 384 US grants and 378 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in F16P- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 378
- Assignees
- 224
- Inventors
- 832
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 11 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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