G02B 21/0092
Polarisation microscopes
Official title: {Polarisation microscopes}
G02B21/0092 (Polarisation microscopes) appears on 180 US grants and 236 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 180
- Published applications
- 236
- Assignees
- 148
- Inventors
- 478
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2004 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 1 | 3 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 8 |
| 2010 | 3 | 6 |
| 2011 | 3 | 7 |
| 2012 | 3 | 12 |
| 2013 | 4 | 9 |
| 2014 | 12 | 16 |
| 2015 | 12 | 19 |
| 2016 | 11 | 16 |
| 2017 | 11 | 20 |
| 2018 | 20 | 16 |
| 2019 | 18 | 12 |
| 2020 | 10 | 13 |
| 2021 | 6 | 18 |
| 2022 | 14 | 8 |
| 2023 | 9 | 16 |
| 2024 | 14 | 15 |
| 2025 | 14 | 9 |
| 2026 | 8 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Reference switch architectures for noncontact sensing of substances18 Aug 2026US 12,710,358 B2Apple Inc.
- Selective time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy with switchable states19 May 2026US 12,631,561 B2Rizer Biotech AB
- Quantitative phase imaging with nonlinearly polarized light using a birefringent liquid crystal cell and related methods14 Apr 2026US 12,601,926 B2The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Authentication of dendritic structures14 Apr 2026US 12,602,944 B2Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
- Apparatus and method to convert a regular bright-field microscope into a PS-QPI system24 Mar 2026US 12,585,100 B2
- Systems and methods for mueller matrix imaging13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235495 A1President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Observation device and observation method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235858 A1Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
- Apparatus and method to convert a regular bright-field microscope into a ps-qpi system6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227617 A1
- Quantitative Wide Field Polarized Light Microscope30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219487 A1Advanced Optical Technologies, LLC
- Quantitative phase imaging with nonlinearly polarized light and related methods23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211254 A1The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Most cited
By later US patents
- Enhancing polarized light microscopy75US 6,924,893 B2Marine Biological Laboratory · 2005
- Acoustic assisted phase conjugate optical tomography38US 8,450,674 B2California Institute of Technology · 2013
- Turbidity suppression by optical phase conjugation using a spatial light modulator33US 8,717,574 B2California Institute of Technology · 2014
- Optical phase conjugation 4Pi microscope33US 8,830,573 B2California Institute of Technology · 2014
- Polarization modulation laser scanning microscopy30US 5,457,536 ACalifornia Institute of Technology · 1995