F21V 7/0016
On lighting devices that also provide for direct lighting
Official title: {on lighting devices that also provide for direct lighting, e.g. by means of independent light sources, by splitting of the light beam, by switching between both lighting modes}
F21V7/0016 (On lighting devices that also provide for direct lighting) appears on 565 US grants and 546 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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