C03B 23/22
Uniting glass lenses
Official title: Uniting glass lenses, e.g. forming bifocal lenses
C03B23/22 (Uniting glass lenses) appears on 21 US grants and 14 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
- 21
- Published applications
- 14
- Assignees
- 17
- Inventors
- 59
- Latest grant
- 24 Feb 2026
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| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical component with embedded mask24 Feb 2026US 12,560,748 B1Apple Inc.
- Laser bonded transparent glass-based articles and methods of making the same30 Aug 2022US 11,426,989 B2Corning Optical Communications LLC
- Hydroxide-catalysis bonding of optical components used in DUV optical systems24 May 2022US 11,340,383 B2Corning Incorporated
- Optical elements having gradient optical properties26 Apr 2022US 11,313,997 B2Momentum Optics LLC
- Wafer-level homogeneous bonding optical structure and method to form the same5 Oct 2021US 11,137,581 B2Himax Technologies Limited
- Laser glass welding of optical components using fiducials23 Jul 2026US 2026/0209102 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Laser-bonded optical assemblies2 May 2024US 2024/0140082 A1Corning Incorporated
- Optical elements having gradient optical properties24 Sep 2020US 2020/0301048 A1Momentum Optics LLC
- Wafer-level homogeneous bonding optical structure and method to form the same2 Apr 2020US 2020/0103633 A1Himax Technologies Limited
- Laser bonded transparent glass-based articles and methods of making the same15 Aug 2019US 2019/0248123 A1Corning Optical Communications LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Double axial gradient lens and process for fabrication thereof24US 5,044,737 AISOTEC Partners, Ltd. · 1991
- Process for making multifocal photochromic ophthalmic lens20US 4,017,292 ACorning Glass Works · 1977
- Glass-ceramic support for fusing and sagging ophthmalmic multifocal lenses9US 4,883,525 ACorning Incorporated · 1989
- Patterned glass cylindrical lens arrays for concentrated photovoltaic systems, and/or methods of making the same7US 8,609,455 B2Guardian Industries Corp. · 2013
- Method of producing photochromic multifocal spectacle lenses6US 3,966,311 ACarl-Zeiss-Stiftung · 1976