G02B 21/0048
Scanning mirrors
Official title: {scanning mirrors, e.g. rotating or galvanomirrors, MEMS mirrors}
G02B21/0048 (Scanning mirrors) appears on 411 US grants and 472 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 411
- Published applications
- 472
- Assignees
- 229
- Inventors
- 792
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 15 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Low cost beam-expanding relay lens29 Sep 2026US 12,748,293 B2CZ Biohub SF, LLC
- Scanning microscope unit, scanning microscope, and calibration method for scanning microscope unit11 Aug 2026US 12,704,703 B2Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Single cell selection and isolation21 Jul 2026US 12,687,495 B2Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam
- Method and apparatus for rapid depth-scanning in laser imaging14 Jul 2026US 12,681,284 B2Fluorescence Microscopy Business Unit (FMBU) of Bruker Nano Surfaces Division
- Laser scanning system14 Jul 2026US 12,681,291 B2The Australian National University
- Illumination device for a light sheet microscope8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309966 A1Viventis Microscopy SàRl
- Self-Referencing Interferometric Microscope10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267121 A1Camtek Ltd.
- Method, minflux microscope and computer program for localizing or tracking emitters10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267122 A1Abberior Instruments GmbH
- Imaging system with photon reallocation6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227614 A1Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Hyper-throughput, multiplex, single molecule imaging platform6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227615 A1University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
Most cited
By later US patents
- Systems and methods for detection of labeled materials265US 5,981,956 AAffymetrix, Inc. · 1999
- Apparatus and method for the rapid spectral resolution of confocal images159US 6,134,002 ADuke University · 2000
- Spatially light modulated confocal microscope and method156US 5,587,832 ABiophysica Technologies, Inc. · 1996
- Miniature scanning confocal microscope140US 5,742,419 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Universtiy · 1998
- Miniature scanning confocal microscope140US 5,907,425 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 1999