G02B 21/0036
Scanning details
Official title: {Scanning details, e.g. scanning stages}
G02B21/0036 (Scanning details) appears on 975 US grants and 1,088 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 975
- Published applications
- 1,088
- Assignees
- 469
- Inventors
- 1,800
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2022 | 61 | 67 |
| 2023 | 50 | 54 |
| 2024 | 47 | 50 |
| 2025 | 67 | 56 |
| 2026 | 40 | 49 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Low cost beam-expanding relay lens29 Sep 2026US 12,748,293 B2CZ Biohub SF, LLC
- Observation apparatus15 Sep 2026US 12,736,796 B2Evident Corporation
- Scanning optical microscope8 Sep 2026US 12,730,289 B2Phomedics Limited
- Method for accelerated microscopy of large samples8 Sep 2026US 12,730,290 B2TILL L.D. GmbH
- System and methods of multiple fluorophore visualization8 Sep 2026US 12,730,293 B2Synaptive Medical Inc.
- Illumination device for a light sheet microscope8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309966 A1Viventis Microscopy SàRl
- Methods and systems for three-dimensional lightsheet imaging1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299271 A1Countable Labs, Inc.
- Chromatic Confocal System for Line-Scanning an Object1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299272 A1Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
- Three-dimensional imaging systems and methods for determining nucleic acids in thick tissues1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301438 A1President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Coordinated motion metrology device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303956 A1Nanoverse Technologies Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Tandem linear scanning confocal imaging system with focal volumes at different heights499US 5,248,876 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1993
- Laser excited confocal microscope fluorescence scanner and method491US 5,091,652 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1992
- Microlens scanner for microlithography and wide-field confocal microscopy461US 6,133,986 A2000
- Fully automatic rapid microscope slide scanner312US 6,711,283 B1Aperio Technologies, Inc. · 2004
- High-throughput, maskless lithography system299US 6,177,980 B12001