G02B 6/3863
Fabricated by using polishing techniques
Official title: {fabricated by using polishing techniques (grinding of the fibre ends B24B19/226)}
G02B6/3863 (Fabricated by using polishing techniques) appears on 471 US grants and 316 published applications in this corpus.
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