G02B 21/0044
Moving apertures
Official title: {moving apertures, e.g. Nipkow disks, rotating lens arrays}
G02B21/0044 (Moving apertures) appears on 192 US grants and 191 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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