G02B 21/0008
Microscopes having a simple construction
Official title: {Microscopes having a simple construction, e.g. portable microscopes}
G02B21/0008 (Microscopes having a simple construction) appears on 340 US grants and 405 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 405
- Assignees
- 213
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 15 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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