G01B 9/02049
Characterised by particular mechanical design details
Official title: {characterised by particular mechanical design details}
G01B9/02049 (Characterised by particular mechanical design details) appears on 570 US grants and 596 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01B- Granted patents
- 570
- Published applications
- 596
- Assignees
- 337
- Inventors
- 1,218
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2002 | 7 | 10 |
| 2003 | 13 | 14 |
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| 2005 | 9 | 15 |
| 2006 | 11 | 20 |
| 2007 | 8 | 18 |
| 2008 | 17 | 13 |
| 2009 | 5 | 24 |
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| 2017 | 35 | 27 |
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| 2019 | 35 | 27 |
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| 2021 | 37 | 38 |
| 2022 | 31 | 39 |
| 2023 | 35 | 34 |
| 2024 | 19 | 29 |
| 2025 | 26 | 14 |
| 2026 | 13 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical coherence tomograph22 Sep 2026US 12,742,629 B2Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Tunable cascaded Mach-Zehnder interferometer structures28 Jul 2026US 12,693,571 B2Intel Corporation
- Interferometric wavemeter for broadband sensors in photonic systems21 Jul 2026US 12,687,383 B2Intel Corporation
- Microphone component and method of manufacture16 Jun 2026US 12,659,642 B2Sensibel AS
- Optical element21 Apr 2026US 12,607,836 B2The University of Adelaide
- Microphone component and method of manufacture24 Sep 2026US 2026/0292381 A1Sensibel AS
- Shape measurement device and shape measurement method6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227174 A1Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
- Modular system for teaching interferometry30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219029 A1
- Apparatus for optical coherence tomography23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210693 A1Siloton Limited
- Spectral domain optical coherence tomography apparatus9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194338 A1The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Most cited
By later US patents
- Methods and apparatus for forward-directed optical scanning instruments1,184US 6,485,413 B1The General Hospital Corporation · 2002
- Method and apparatus for performing optical measurements using a fiber optic imaging guidewire, catheter or endoscope1,079US 6,134,003 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 2000
- Fiber optic needle probes for optical coherence tomography imaging722US 6,564,087 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2003
- Fiber optic imaging endoscope interferometer with at least one faraday rotator710US 6,501,551 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2002
- Rapid depth scanning optical imaging device428US 6,687,010 B1Olympus Corporation · 2004