G02B 1/007
Made of negative effective refractive index materials
Official title: {made of negative effective refractive index materials}
G02B1/007 (Made of negative effective refractive index materials) appears on 161 US grants and 202 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 161
- Published applications
- 202
- Assignees
- 122
- Inventors
- 399
- Latest grant
- 9 Jun 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 2 | 4 |
| 2006 | 1 | 7 |
| 2007 | 2 | 17 |
| 2008 | 7 | 11 |
| 2009 | 9 | 17 |
| 2010 | 15 | 25 |
| 2011 | 8 | 8 |
| 2012 | 17 | 13 |
| 2013 | 7 | 6 |
| 2014 | 14 | 3 |
| 2015 | 8 | 6 |
| 2016 | 7 | 7 |
| 2017 | 7 | 11 |
| 2018 | 9 | 9 |
| 2019 | 8 | 8 |
| 2020 | 8 | 4 |
| 2021 | 3 | 12 |
| 2022 | 6 | 3 |
| 2023 | 5 | 10 |
| 2024 | 9 | 9 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 6 |
By publication year. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Artificially-structured materials with smart elements9 Jun 2026US 12,650,556 B2MetaVC Patent Holding Company
- Optical filter4 Nov 2025US 12,461,289 B2Viavi Solutions Inc.
- Optical imaging system4 Nov 2025US 12,461,344 B2Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- See-through type display apparatus and electronic device including the same4 Nov 2025US 12,461,376 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Optical filter7 Oct 2025US 12,436,327 B2Viavi Solutions Inc.
- Multilayer metasurface superlens and surface plasmon lithography method20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243923 A1Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Optical imaging system11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160980 A1Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Metalenses for Use in Night-Vision Technology4 Jun 2026US 2026/0153381 A1Northeastern University
- Optical element, light source apparatus, light scanning apparatus, and irradiation apparatus5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036717 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Optical filter29 Jan 2026US 2026/0029563 A1Viavi Solutions Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Metamaterials103US 8,040,586 B2The Regents of the University of California · 2011
- Metamaterials for controlling and guiding electromagnetic radiation and applications therefor100US 6,859,114 B22005
- Metamaterials95US 7,538,946 B2The Regents of the University of California · 2009
- Quantum computing device and method including qubit arrays of entangled states using negative refractive index lenses65US 7,985,965 B2Raytheon Company · 2011
- Waveguides and scattering devices incorporating epsilon-negative and/or mu-negative slabs34US 7,218,190 B2The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · 2007