G05D 1/0231
Using optical position detecting means
Official title: {using optical position detecting means (position-fixing by using electromagnetic waves other than radio waves, e.g. optical position detecting means G01S5/16)}
G05D1/0231 (Using optical position detecting means) appears on 8,651 US grants and 9,577 published applications in this corpus.
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