G02B 21/008
Details of detection or image processing, including general computer control
Official title: {Details of detection or image processing, including general computer control}
G02B21/008 (Details of detection or image processing, including general computer control) appears on 1,071 US grants and 1,260 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,071
- Published applications
- 1,260
- Assignees
- 496
- Inventors
- 2,034
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2021 | 68 | 79 |
| 2022 | 80 | 71 |
| 2023 | 51 | 82 |
| 2024 | 62 | 67 |
| 2025 | 81 | 73 |
| 2026 | 44 | 46 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Apparatus and methods for fluorescence imaging using radiofrequency-multiplexed excitation22 Sep 2026US 12,742,731 B2The Regents of the University of California
- Semiconductor inspection tool and methods of operation22 Sep 2026US 12,742,954 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Microscope for determining properties of moving objects in a biological sample15 Sep 2026US 12,736,791 B2Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
- Method for accelerated microscopy of large samples8 Sep 2026US 12,730,290 B2TILL L.D. GmbH
- Transverse sheet illumination microscopy(TranSIM)8 Sep 2026US 12,730,292 B2The Regents of the University of California
- An imaging device and a method for imaging8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309967 A1Imec Vzw
- Methods and systems for three-dimensional lightsheet imaging1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299271 A1Countable Labs, Inc.
- Method of improved bright field-dark field metrology1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299276 A1Nanoverse Technologies Ltd
- Three-dimensional imaging systems and methods for determining nucleic acids in thick tissues1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301438 A1President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Method for adjusting a fluorescence image intensity, and fluorescence microscope24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287872 A1Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
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- Systems and methods for detection of labeled materials265US 5,981,956 AAffymetrix, Inc. · 1999
- Multiple layer, multiple track optical disk access by confocal interference microscopy using wavenumber domain reflectometry and background amplitude reduction and compensation252US 6,091,496 AZetetic Institute · 2000
- Optical device with an illuminating grid and detector grid arranged confocally to an object239US 5,239,178 ACarl Zeiss AG · 1993
- Method and apparatus for screening chemical compounds236US 6,388,788 B1Praelux Incorporated · 2002