G01B 7/023
For measuring distance between sensor and object
Official title: {for measuring distance between sensor and object (G01B7/082 and G01B7/102 take precedence)}
G01B7/023 (For measuring distance between sensor and object) appears on 499 US grants and 397 published applications in this corpus.
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