G02B 13/0015
Characterised by the lens design
Official title: {characterised by the lens design}
G02B13/0015 (Characterised by the lens design) appears on 7,256 US grants and 8,727 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 7,256
- Published applications
- 8,727
- Assignees
- 670
- Inventors
- 3,904
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 570 | 503 |
| 2026 | 327 | 440 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,394 B2LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Optical imaging system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,397 B2Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Lens module6 Oct 2026US 12,754,398 B2Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same6 Oct 2026US 12,754,399 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Optical lens, camera module, and electronic device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,400 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Optical system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309958 A1Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Optical imaging system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309959 A1Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Optical system and camera module8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309960 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Imaging lens system, image capturing unit and electronic device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309961 A1Largan Industrial Optics Co., Ltd.
- Ophthalmic lens8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309962 A1Young Optics Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for multiple camera devices and method of operating same466US 7,199,348 B2Newport Imaging Corporation · 2007
- Dual aperture zoom digital camera370US 9,185,291 B1Corephotonics Ltd. · 2015
- Hermetically sealed distal sensor endoscope283US 8,556,807 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2013
- Digital camera with integrated infrared (IR) response277US 7,566,855 B22009
- Vision system222US 7,423,821 B2Gentex Corporation · 2008