G02B 26/124
Details of the optical system between the light source and the polygonal
Official title: {Details of the optical system between the light source and the polygonal mirror (G02B26/123, G02B26/127 take precedence)}
G02B26/124 (Details of the optical system between the light source and the polygonal) appears on 479 US grants and 445 published applications in this corpus.
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