G01B 9/02068
Auto-alignment of optical elements
Official title: {Auto-alignment of optical elements}
G01B9/02068 (Auto-alignment of optical elements) appears on 124 US grants and 112 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01B- Granted patents
- 124
- Published applications
- 112
- Assignees
- 75
- Inventors
- 249
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026 | 2 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Interference methods and interference microscopes for measuring energy path length differences, path length between two locaitons or for determiing refractive index70US 5,491,550 ACommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization · 1996
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- Method and apparatus for improving both lateral and axial resolution in ophthalmoscopy65US 7,364,296 B2University of Rochester · 2008