G02B 6/2808
Using a mixing element which evenly distributes an input signal over a
Official title: {using a mixing element which evenly distributes an input signal over a number of outputs}
G02B6/2808 (Using a mixing element which evenly distributes an input signal over a) appears on 710 US grants and 553 published applications in this corpus.
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