H10F 77/488
Reflecting light-concentrating means
Official title: {Reflecting light-concentrating means, e.g. parabolic mirrors or concentrators using total internal reflection}
H10F77/488 (Reflecting light-concentrating means) appears on 1,564 US grants and 2,531 published applications in this corpus.
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