G01S 7/481
Constructional features
Official title: Constructional features, e.g. arrangements of optical elements
G01S7/481 (Constructional features) appears on 8,975 US grants and 12,090 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 12,090
- Assignees
- 2,447
- Inventors
- 15,710
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 1009 | 1214 |
| 2025 | 901 | 936 |
| 2026 | 642 | 643 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Laminate windows for infrared sensing systems6 Oct 2026US 12,752,516 B2Corning Incorporated
- Fender cover for mounting of autonomous driving sensor6 Oct 2026US 12,754,281 B2Hyundai Motor Company
- Depth sensing using multiple coherent emitters6 Oct 2026US 12,754,290 B2Apple Inc.
- Display assembly and display device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,291 B2Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
- Active optical sensor providing near and far field target detection6 Oct 2026US 12,754,292 B2Apple Inc.
- Coating composition for a sensor cover and a sensor cover8 Oct 2026US 2026/0308412 A1Hyundai Motor Company
- System for coherent wind speed measurement using a broad bandwidth light source8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309743 A1Tobb Ekonomi Ve Teknoloji Universitesi
- Optical terminal for lidar and optical communication and method for operating8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309833 A1Airbus SAS
- Sensor assembly and method of operating a vehicle with the sensor assembly8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309845 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Porous antireflective coating for a near-infrared sensor cover8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309846 A1Agc Glass Europe
Most cited
By later US patents
- High definition lidar system584US 7,969,558 B2Velodyne Acoustics, Inc. · 2011
- Three-dimensional imaging and display system582US 8,018,579 B1Apple Inc. · 2011
- Integrated system for quickly and accurately imaging and modeling three dimensional objects476US 5,988,862 ACyra Technologies, Inc. · 1999
- RGBZ (red, green, blue, z-depth) filter system usable with sensor systems, including sensor systems with synthetic mirror enhanced three-dimensional imaging446US 7,375,803 B1Canesta, Inc. · 2008
- Integrated vehicle positioning and navigation system, apparatus and method416US 5,610,815 ACaterpillar Inc. · 1997