G02B 21/025
With variable magnification
Official title: {with variable magnification (variable magnification G02B15/00)}
G02B21/025 (With variable magnification) appears on 338 US grants and 390 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 338
- Published applications
- 390
- Assignees
- 157
- Inventors
- 569
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2003 | 3 | 5 |
| 2004 | 5 | 8 |
| 2005 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 3 | 6 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 6 | 5 |
| 2009 | 4 | 13 |
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| 2015 | 11 | 27 |
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| 2017 | 12 | 38 |
| 2018 | 26 | 39 |
| 2019 | 38 | 23 |
| 2020 | 32 | 40 |
| 2021 | 23 | 33 |
| 2022 | 27 | 26 |
| 2023 | 21 | 10 |
| 2024 | 16 | 13 |
| 2025 | 16 | 10 |
| 2026 | 11 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Apparatuses for a microscope system, microscope system, methods and computer program6 Oct 2026US 12,754,407 B2Leica Microsystems CMS GmbH
- Microscope objective and microscope observation system11 Aug 2026US 12,704,705 B2KYOCERA SOC Corporation
- Lens system for wavefront modulation4 Aug 2026US 12,699,258 B2Technion Research & Development Foundation Limited
- Microscope objective lens and microscope apparatus16 Jun 2026US 12,656,589 B2Nikon Corporation
- Systems and methods for optogenetic imaging9 Jun 2026US 12,648,827 B2Bruker Nano, Inc.
- Microscope objective lens and microscope apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276965 A1Nikon Corporation
- Method for Light-Field Microscopy and Light-Field Microscope10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267128 A1
- Portable and low-cost microscopic imaging device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259399 A1Vital Biosciences Inc.
- Multi-modal microscopic imaging20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240621 A1Bruker Nano, Inc.
- Zoom lens and imaging apparatus6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227609 A1Sony Group Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microscope with tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction lens enabling multiple focal plan imaging215US 9,213,175 B22015
- Compound objective lens having two focal points144US 5,446,565 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Medical microscopic system49US 5,835,266 ATopcon Corporation · 1998
- Compound objective lens having two focal points47US 5,815,293 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1998
- Method and system for imaging high density biochemical arrays with sub-pixel alignment33US 8,175,452 B1Complete Genomics, Inc. · 2012