B29D 11/00432
Auxiliary operations
Official title: {Auxiliary operations, e.g. machines for filling the moulds (B29D11/00125 takes precedence)}
B29D11/00432 (Auxiliary operations) appears on 827 US grants and 987 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B29D- Granted patents
- 827
- Published applications
- 987
- Assignees
- 388
- Inventors
- 1,801
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 2 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 15 | 0 |
| 1999 | 11 | 0 |
| 2000 | 18 | 0 |
| 2001 | 21 | 10 |
| 2002 | 21 | 35 |
| 2003 | 25 | 41 |
| 2004 | 38 | 36 |
| 2005 | 21 | 31 |
| 2006 | 30 | 17 |
| 2007 | 17 | 37 |
| 2008 | 10 | 16 |
| 2009 | 12 | 31 |
| 2010 | 17 | 36 |
| 2011 | 18 | 28 |
| 2012 | 24 | 27 |
| 2013 | 19 | 26 |
| 2014 | 21 | 35 |
| 2015 | 29 | 30 |
| 2016 | 17 | 51 |
| 2017 | 27 | 36 |
| 2018 | 29 | 56 |
| 2019 | 38 | 41 |
| 2020 | 42 | 41 |
| 2021 | 33 | 66 |
| 2022 | 35 | 46 |
| 2023 | 40 | 67 |
| 2024 | 51 | 47 |
| 2025 | 60 | 56 |
| 2026 | 24 | 44 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Method of providing refractive microstructures on a surface of a spectacle lens and spectacle lens design6 Oct 2026US 12,752,503 B2Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
- Manufacturing an optical structure25 Aug 2026US 12,715,187 B2Heptagon Photonics Pte. Ltd.
- Multifocal ophthalmic lens having a plurality of layers of cured polymerizable mixture25 Aug 2026US 12,717,169 B2Atheneum Optical Sciences, LLC
- Methods and systems for making an optical functional film11 Aug 2026US 12,703,160 B2
- Ophthalmic lens and ophthalmic lens treatment method11 Aug 2026US 12,704,746 B2Essilor International
- Systems and methods for vergence matching with an optical profile and using refractive index writing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307346 A1AMO Groningen B. V.
- Ophthalmic lens and ophthalmic lens treatment method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310008 A1Essilor International
- Method and apparatus for manufacturing an optical element, optical element and optical system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273879 A1Optotune Switzerland AG
- Resin composition, optical element, optical device, imaging device, cured product, and method of producing optical element3 Sep 2026US 2026/0258168 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Optimized additive manufacturing of optics27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249557 A1Vadient Optics, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for forming optical lenses382US 4,113,224 ABausch & Lomb Incorporated · 1978
- Method for forming optical lenses363US 4,197,266 ABausch & Lomb Incorporated · 1980
- Photocrosslinked polymers238US 5,508,317 ACiba-Geigy Corporation · 1996
- Method for manufacturing lenses using thin coatings187US 5,219,497 AInnotech Corporation · 1993
- Random texture anti-reflection optical surface treatment185US 8,187,481 B1CoHo Holdings, LLC · 2012