G02B 26/127
Adaptive control of the scanning light beam
Official title: {Adaptive control of the scanning light beam, e.g. using the feedback from one or more detectors (G02B27/0031 takes precedence)}
G02B26/127 (Adaptive control of the scanning light beam) appears on 661 US grants and 554 published applications in this corpus.
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