B29D 11/00307
Producing lens wafers
Official title: {Producing lens wafers}
B29D11/00307 (Producing lens wafers) appears on 139 US grants and 199 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 139
- Published applications
- 199
- Assignees
- 55
- Inventors
- 287
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2007 | 0 | 5 |
| 2008 | 1 | 5 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 9 |
| 2011 | 1 | 18 |
| 2012 | 1 | 10 |
| 2013 | 8 | 16 |
| 2014 | 10 | 18 |
| 2015 | 12 | 11 |
| 2016 | 10 | 12 |
| 2017 | 12 | 15 |
| 2018 | 10 | 14 |
| 2019 | 15 | 4 |
| 2020 | 12 | 9 |
| 2021 | 7 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2 | 20 |
| 2023 | 9 | 9 |
| 2024 | 13 | 8 |
| 2025 | 10 | 3 |
| 2026 | 2 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Chalcogenide lens elements and methods of manufacture28 Oct 2025US 12,454,109 B2FLIR Systems Trading Belgium BVBA
- Overmolded lenses18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169270 A1Heptagon Photonics Pte. Ltd.
- Glass cover manufacturing using a single-crystal silicon mold11 Jun 2026US 2026/0158755 A1Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Replication tool for producing a plurality of optical elements, and method for producing a plurality of optical elements4 Jun 2026US 2026/0151974 A1Heptagon Photonics Pte. Ltd.
- Optical devices that include a protected lens12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043947 A1NIL Technology ApS
- Method of manufacturing optical device5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036793 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical assembly and a method for manufacturing lens systems32US 6,324,010 B1Eastman Kodak Company · 2001
- Diffractive optical elements23US 5,938,989 AMems Optical, Inc. · 1999
- Diffractive optical elements16US 6,517,751 B1Mems Optical, Inc. · 2003
- Injection molded microoptics12US 7,399,421 B2International Business Machines Corporation · 2008
- Lens unit, lens assembly, camera module, method of fabricating camera module and lens assembly, method of fabricating optic member, and apparatus of fabricating optic member8US 8,416,514 B2LG Innotek Co., Ltd. · 2013