G01B 11/026
By measuring distance between sensor and object
Official title: {by measuring distance between sensor and object (G01B11/0608 takes precedence)}
G01B11/026 (By measuring distance between sensor and object) appears on 1,249 US grants and 1,315 published applications in this corpus.
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