G02B 7/32
Using active means
Official title: using active means, e.g. light emitter {(including both an active and a passive focus detecting device G02B7/285; using ultrasound G02B7/40)}
G02B7/32 (Using active means) appears on 650 US grants and 197 published applications in this corpus.
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