B24B 13/06
Grinding of lenses, the tool or work being controlled by information-carrying means
Official title: grinding of lenses, the tool or work being controlled by information-carrying means, e.g. patterns, punched tapes, magnetic tapes
B24B13/06 (Grinding of lenses, the tool or work being controlled by information-carrying means) appears on 150 US grants and 127 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B24B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, method of managing eyeglasses lens machining apparatus, and eyeglasses lens machining apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,746,633 B2Nidek Co., Ltd.
- Transportation carrier for automated lens manufacturing process and related manufacturing facility24 Mar 2026US 12,583,074 B2Satisloh AG
- Surfacing station for manufacturing optical elements and related manufacturing facility17 Feb 2026US 12,551,979 B2Satisloh AG
- Optical lens16 Sep 2025US 12,416,819 B2Essilor International
- Spectacle lens producing method, spectacle lens producing system, and spectacle lens26 Nov 2024US 12,151,333 B2Hoya Lens Thailand Ltd.
- Eyeglasses lens machining device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing eyeglasses lens machining program25 Jun 2026US 2026/0175357 A1Nidek Co., Ltd.
- Computer-implemented method for providing an occupation order for transferring lens blanks from a first carrier to a second carrier5 Feb 2026US 2026/0034634 A1Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
- Lens rebuilding system and method of rebuilding damaged lens in lithography tool16 Oct 2025US 2025/0321508 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Method for manufacturing an ophthalmic device comprising machining9 Oct 2025US 2025/0312878 A1Essilor International
- Method for manufacturing by machining an ophthalmic device31 Jul 2025US 2025/0242464 A1Essilor International
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for the manufacture of contact lenses179US 5,114,628 ACiba-Geigy Corporation · 1992
- Arrayed imaging systems having improved alignment and associated methods142US 8,599,301 B2OmniVision Technologies, Inc. · 2013
- Arrayed imaging systems having improved alignment and associated methods132US 9,418,193 B2OmniVision Technologies, Inc. · 2016
- Arrayed imaging systems having improved alignment and associated methods121US 10,002,215 B2OmniVision Technologies, Inc. · 2018
- Method of grinding an axially asymmetric aspherical mirror97US 6,537,138 B2Riken · 2003