G01S 7/4865
Time delay measurement
Official title: Time delay measurement, e.g. time-of-flight measurement, time of arrival measurement or determining the exact position of a peak (peak detection in noise, signal conditioning G01S7/487)
G01S7/4865 (Time delay measurement) appears on 1,776 US grants and 2,811 published applications in this corpus.
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