E06B 2009/2417
Light path control
Official title: {Light path control; means to control reflection}
E06B2009/2417 (Light path control) appears on 537 US grants and 716 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E06B- Granted patents
- 537
- Published applications
- 716
- Assignees
- 259
- Inventors
- 1,166
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2026 | 11 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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