H04J 14/0205
Select and combine arrangements
Official title: {Select and combine arrangements, e.g. with an optical combiner at the output after adding or dropping}
H04J14/0205 (Select and combine arrangements) appears on 424 US grants and 439 published applications in this corpus.
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