G02B 13/14
Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below: for use with
Official title: for use with infrared or ultraviolet radiation ({G02B13/008, } G02B13/16 take precedence)
G02B13/14 (Optical objectives specially designed for the purposes specified below: for use with) appears on 1,120 US grants and 1,096 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,120
- Published applications
- 1,096
- Assignees
- 473
- Inventors
- 1,875
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 19 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Lens apparatus and related assemblies and vehicles for laser imaging systems6 Oct 2026US 12,754,402 B2Rivian IP Holdings, LLC
- Optical image capturing system15 Sep 2026US 12,736,787 B2Ability Opto-Electronics Technology Co., Ltd.
- Large-field of view, high-resolution broadband objective lens8 Sep 2026US 12,730,285 B2Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Planar optic hybrid telephoto lens4 Aug 2026US 12,699,206 B2Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
- Method and apparatus for deposition of at least one layer, optical element and optical arrangement28 Jul 2026US 12,692,603 B2Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
- Lens system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276949 A1Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Device for anti-fog arthroscope system13 Aug 2026US 2026/0232179 A1
- Camera apparatus for palm-scan recognition device6 Aug 2026US 2026/0229059 A1Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
- Surround-view imaging system with simultaneous tof and rgb image acquisition30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219565 A1Jabil Optics Germany GmbH
- Imaging lens system, camera module, in-vehicle system, and vehicle23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211220 A1Maxell, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical element employing aspherical and binary grating optical surfaces427US 5,044,706 AHughes Aircraft Company · 1991
- Projection optical system and exposure apparatus having the projection optical system322US 6,633,365 B2Nikon Corporation · 2003
- Illuminating arrangement including a zoom objective incorporating two axicons158US 5,675,401 ACarl-Zeiss-Stiftung · 1997
- Broad spectrum ultraviolet catadioptric imaging system143US 5,717,518 AKLA Instruments Corporation · 1998
- Multi-special decentered catadioptric optical system135US 5,841,574 ARecon/Optical, Inc. · 1998