G10K 11/004
Mounting transducers
Official title: {Mounting transducers, e.g. provided with mechanical moving or orienting device (mountings specially adapted to a particular sound-producing device, see the preceding groups G10K1/00 - G10K9/00, e.g. G10K1/26, G10K1/28, G10K9/22; arrangements of sonic watch equipment on submarines B63G8/39; buoys B63B22/00)}
G10K11/004 (Mounting transducers) appears on 1,039 US grants and 665 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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