G02B 6/0096
The lights guides being of the hollow type
Official title: {the lights guides being of the hollow type}
G02B6/0096 (The lights guides being of the hollow type) appears on 760 US grants and 837 published applications in this corpus.
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| 2026 | 6 | 8 |
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