G01B 9/02078
Caused by ambiguity
Official title: {Caused by ambiguity}
G01B9/02078 (Caused by ambiguity) appears on 333 US grants and 297 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01B- Granted patents
- 333
- Published applications
- 297
- Assignees
- 186
- Inventors
- 531
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 8 | 0 |
| 1993 | 5 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
| 1995 | 6 | 0 |
| 1996 | 5 | 0 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2 | 5 |
| 2003 | 8 | 10 |
| 2004 | 6 | 14 |
| 2005 | 9 | 19 |
| 2006 | 12 | 22 |
| 2007 | 13 | 18 |
| 2008 | 22 | 19 |
| 2009 | 14 | 12 |
| 2010 | 14 | 26 |
| 2011 | 27 | 17 |
| 2012 | 4 | 13 |
| 2013 | 18 | 14 |
| 2014 | 21 | 10 |
| 2015 | 10 | 8 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8 |
| 2017 | 6 | 9 |
| 2018 | 13 | 7 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10 |
| 2020 | 8 | 7 |
| 2021 | 10 | 13 |
| 2022 | 10 | 8 |
| 2023 | 7 | 9 |
| 2024 | 8 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 | 7 |
| 2026 | 5 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Interferometric displacement measurement apparatus15 Sep 2026US 12,736,324 B2Oxford University Innovation Limited
- Bulk glass interferometer design with dispersion for complex conjugate resolution and related aspects21 Apr 2026US 12,607,450 B2Leica Microsystems Nc, Inc.
- Thin film thickness adjustments for three-dimensional interferometric measurements24 Mar 2026US 12,584,733 B2
- Rapid coherent synthetic wavelength interferometric absolute distance measurement10 Feb 2026US 12,546,582 B2Duke University
- Systems and methods for reconstruction of digital holograms27 Jan 2026US 12,535,769 B2Orbotech Ltd.
- Method for determining a position of a target by optical interferometry and device for doing the same30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219027 A1Prodrive Technologies Innovation Services B.V.
- Method for determining a height map and interferometric system for the same25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177375 A1Mitutoyo Corporation
- Method to determine an absolute position of an object, interferometer system, projection system and lithographic apparatus16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104245 A1ASML Netherlands B. V.
- Phase detection device using phase shifting including geometric phase optical element6 Nov 2025US 2025/0341389 A1PSI System Inc.
- Method to determine an absolute position of a movable object, interferometer system, projection system and lithograpic apparatus23 Oct 2025US 2025/0327653 A1ASML Netherlands B. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus and method for ranging and noise reduction of low coherence interferometry LCI and optical coherence tomography OCT signals by parallel detection of spectral bands340US 7,355,716 B2The General Hospital Corporation · 2008
- Optical coherence tomographic system for ophthalmic surgery272US 8,414,564 B2Alcon LenSx, Inc. · 2013
- System and method for optically measuring a structure261US 5,880,838 ACalifornia Institute of California · 1999
- High speed spectral domain functional optical coherence tomography and optical doppler tomography for in vivo blood flow dynamics and tissue structure234US 7,359,062 B2The Regents of the University of California · 2008
- Jamin-type interferometers and components therefor233US 6,678,056 B22004