G02B 1/002
Made of materials engineered to provide properties not available in nature
Official title: {made of materials engineered to provide properties not available in nature, e.g. metamaterials}
G02B1/002 (Made of materials engineered to provide properties not available in nature) appears on 1,557 US grants and 2,282 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,557
- Published applications
- 2,282
- Assignees
- 772
- Inventors
- 4,269
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 3 |
| 2003 | 2 | 6 |
| 2004 | 1 | 7 |
| 2005 | 7 | 14 |
| 2006 | 7 | 15 |
| 2007 | 9 | 30 |
| 2008 | 16 | 24 |
| 2009 | 13 | 39 |
| 2010 | 29 | 57 |
| 2011 | 20 | 38 |
| 2012 | 35 | 60 |
| 2013 | 35 | 56 |
| 2014 | 48 | 63 |
| 2015 | 54 | 66 |
| 2016 | 64 | 71 |
| 2017 | 63 | 93 |
| 2018 | 67 | 87 |
| 2019 | 90 | 142 |
| 2020 | 110 | 139 |
| 2021 | 131 | 199 |
| 2022 | 110 | 212 |
| 2023 | 149 | 243 |
| 2024 | 164 | 250 |
| 2025 | 192 | 189 |
| 2026 | 137 | 178 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Volumetric, nonlocal metasurface device that maps certain incident electromagnetic waves to at least one spot on a surface of the device, and methods of manufacture6 Oct 2026US 12,754,347 B2
- Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same6 Oct 2026US 12,754,399 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Optical systems including meta-lenses6 Oct 2026US 12,756,916 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Multi-substrate image sensor device and method with metalens6 Oct 2026US 12,757,503 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Image capture apparatus and methods using color co-site sampling6 Oct 2026US 12,757,509 B2NIL Technology ApS
- Cultivating methods and apparatuses8 Oct 2026US 2026/0305597 A1
- Devices to direct the path of electromagnetic radiation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309979 A1Corning Incorporated
- Image sensor device and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314088 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Production method for an optoelectronic element and corresponding optoelectronic element1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299163 A1
- Deformation sensing and object identification with color-dynamic mechano-responsive photonic materials1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299164 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optically oriented three-dimensional polymer microstructures163US 7,382,959 B1HRL Laboratories, LLC · 2008
- Three dimensionally periodic structural assemblies on nanometer and longer scales129US 6,261,469 B1Honeywell International Inc. · 2001
- Polymer-inorganic particle composites127US 6,599,631 B2NanoGram Corporation · 2003
- CMOS image sensor113US 7,153,720 B2Quantum Semiconductor LLC · 2006
- Microlens for projection lithography and method of preparation thereof106US 7,057,832 B2President and Fellows of Harvard College · 2006