G06F 3/0447
Position sensing using the local deformation of sensor cells
Official title: {Position sensing using the local deformation of sensor cells}
G06F3/0447 (Position sensing using the local deformation of sensor cells) appears on 1,081 US grants and 1,377 published applications in this corpus.
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