G11B 2007/0006
Adapted for scanning different types of carrier
Official title: {adapted for scanning different types of carrier, e.g. CD & DVD}
G11B2007/0006 (Adapted for scanning different types of carrier) appears on 1,851 US grants and 1,995 published applications in this corpus.
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