G02B 6/3652
The additional structures being prepositioning mounting areas, allowing only movement in one
Official title: {the additional structures being prepositioning mounting areas, allowing only movement in one dimension, e.g. grooves, trenches or vias in the microbench surface, i.e. self aligning supporting carriers}
G02B6/3652 (The additional structures being prepositioning mounting areas, allowing only movement in one) appears on 1,020 US grants and 865 published applications in this corpus.
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