G02B 13/00
Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below
Official title: Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below (with variable magnification {in general} G02B15/00)
G02B13/00 (Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below) appears on 15,922 US grants and 17,166 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 15,922
- Published applications
- 17,166
- Assignees
- 2,228
- Inventors
- 12,896
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2001 | 113 | 35 |
| 2002 | 113 | 132 |
| 2003 | 144 | 188 |
| 2004 | 144 | 226 |
| 2005 | 158 | 270 |
| 2006 | 242 | 279 |
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| 2012 | 355 | 496 |
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| 2018 | 845 | 1030 |
| 2019 | 1090 | 1284 |
| 2020 | 1029 | 1311 |
| 2021 | 915 | 1306 |
| 2022 | 917 | 1306 |
| 2023 | 957 | 939 |
| 2024 | 1073 | 850 |
| 2025 | 1014 | 861 |
| 2026 | 563 | 645 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G02B 13/001Miniaturised objectives for electronic devices9,604
- G02B 13/18Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below: with lenses having2,926
- G02B 13/06Panoramic objectives1,633
- G02B 13/04Reversed telephoto objectives1,359
- G02B 13/16Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below: for use in1,314
- G02B 13/14Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below: for use with1,120
- G02B 13/02Telephoto objectives, i.e. systems of the type + - in which the954
- G02B 13/22Telecentric objectives or lens systems882
All 13 subgroupsShow fewer
- G02B 13/24Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below: for reproducing or509
- G02B 13/08Anamorphotic objectives362
- G02B 13/0005Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below: having f-theta characteristic324
- G02B 13/0095Relay lenses or rod lenses289
- G02B 13/20Soft-focus objectives45
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