G02B 17/0844
Off-axis or unobscured systems in which all of the mirrors share a
Official title: {off-axis or unobscured systems in which all of the mirrors share a common axis of rotational symmetry}
G02B17/0844 (Off-axis or unobscured systems in which all of the mirrors share a) appears on 77 US grants and 73 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 77
- Published applications
- 73
- Assignees
- 20
- Inventors
- 58
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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| 2004 | 1 | 7 |
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| 2008 | 3 | 10 |
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| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Techniques for high-speed volumetric sampling10 Feb 2026US 12,546,979 B2The Rockefeller University
- Coaxial four-reflection optical system for visible light long-wave infrared common-aperture imaging8 Jul 2025US 12,352,624 B2Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Reflective microscope objective lens for all colors20 Aug 2024US 12,066,616 B2Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
- Hybrid reflective/refractive head mounted display23 Jul 2024US 12,044,857 B2
- Compact annular field imager and method for imaging electromagnetic radiation11 Jul 2023US 11,698,294 B1Wavefront Research, Inc.
- Hybrid reflective/refractive head mounted display1 Jan 2026US 2026/0003189 A1Optique Debt Investment, LLC
- Coaxial four-reflection optical system for visible light long-wave infrared common-aperture imaging13 Jul 2023US 2023/0221181 A1Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Techniques for High-Speed Volumetric Sampling18 May 2023US 2023/0152561 A1The Rockefeller University
- Hybrid reflective/refractive head mounted display17 Mar 2022US 2022/0082843 A1IMMY Inc.
- Reflective microscope objective lens for all colors19 Aug 2021US 2021/0255446 A1The Regents of the University of California
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical relay system with magnification94US 4,747,678 AThe Perkin-Elmer Corporation · 1988
- Microlithographic reduction projection catadioptric objective91US 6,636,350 B2Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung · 2003
- Multiple mirror catadioptric optical system76US 5,515,207 ANikon Precision Inc. · 1996
- Restricted off-axis field optical system70US 4,293,186 AThe Perkin-Elmer Corporation · 1981
- Projection objectives including a plurality of mirrors with lenses ahead of mirror M365US 7,085,075 B2Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH · 2006