H01H 13/807
Characterised by the spatial arrangement of the contact sites
Official title: characterised by the spatial arrangement of the contact sites, e.g. superimposed sites
H01H13/807 (Characterised by the spatial arrangement of the contact sites) appears on 317 US grants and 201 published applications in this corpus.
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