G01B 9/02022
Contacting one object by grazing incidence
Official title: {contacting one object by grazing incidence}
G01B9/02022 (Contacting one object by grazing incidence) appears on 113 US grants and 94 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01B- Granted patents
- 113
- Published applications
- 94
- Assignees
- 70
- Inventors
- 214
- Latest grant
- 19 Aug 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments1,184US 6,485,413 B1The General Hospital Corporation · 2002
- White light velocity interferometer144US 5,910,839 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1999
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