G06K 7/109
Adaptations to make the hand-held scanner useable as a fixed scanner
Official title: {adaptations to make the hand-held scanner useable as a fixed scanner}
G06K7/109 (Adaptations to make the hand-held scanner useable as a fixed scanner) appears on 420 US grants and 189 published applications in this corpus.
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