G01B 9/02038
Shaping the wavefront
Official title: {Shaping the wavefront, e.g. generating a spherical wavefront}
G01B9/02038 (Shaping the wavefront) appears on 223 US grants and 193 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01B- Granted patents
- 223
- Published applications
- 193
- Assignees
- 102
- Inventors
- 369
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Geometric phase in-line scanning holography system for transmissive object19 May 2026US 12,632,006 B2Cubixel Co., Ltd.
- Measuring device for interferometrically measuring a surface form5 May 2026US 12,618,664 B2Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
- Measuring device for interferometric shape measurement10 Mar 2026US 12,571,985 B2Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
- Method for determining a position of a mirror6 Jan 2026US 12,516,963 B2Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
- Single frame-tilted wave interferometer28 Oct 2025US 12,455,157 B2Universität Stuttgart
- Fringe projection-based spatial phase imaging monitoring system using single optical path21 May 2026US 2026/0139941 A1Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
- Method for the interferometric determination of the surface shape of a test object18 Dec 2025US 2025/0383198 A1Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
- Measurement apparatus, measurement method, and manufacturing method21 Aug 2025US 2025/0264322 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- System and method for interferometric measurement alignment17 Apr 2025US 2025/0123094 A1
- Self-mixing interferometry20 Feb 2025US 2025/0060297 A1Dyson Technology Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for white-light dispersed-fringe interferometric measurement of corneal topography177US 5,317,389 ACalifornia Institute of Technology · 1994
- Sub-nyquist interferometry130US 4,791,584 AEastman Kodak Company · 1988
- Interferometric optical systems having simultaneously scanned optical path length and focus101US 7,012,700 B2Zygo Corporation · 2006
- Infrared scanning interferometry apparatus and method90US 6,195,168 B1Zygo Corporation · 2001
- Method of manufacturing an optical system73US 6,312,373 B1Nikon Corporation · 2001