G02B 21/12
Affording bright-field illumination
Official title: affording bright-field illumination (G02B21/14 takes precedence)
G02B21/12 (Affording bright-field illumination) appears on 210 US grants and 245 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 210
- Published applications
- 245
- Assignees
- 142
- Inventors
- 527
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2003 | 3 | 6 |
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| 2015 | 5 | 14 |
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| 2017 | 16 | 21 |
| 2018 | 8 | 14 |
| 2019 | 18 | 16 |
| 2020 | 16 | 16 |
| 2021 | 12 | 19 |
| 2022 | 12 | 14 |
| 2023 | 18 | 18 |
| 2024 | 14 | 13 |
| 2025 | 15 | 10 |
| 2026 | 6 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Microscope system with oblique illumination18 Aug 2026US 12,710,635 B2Andor Technology Limited
- Accelerating digital microscopy scans using empty/dirty area detection30 Jun 2026US 12,669,694 B2Scopio Labs Ltd.
- AI enabled selective raman spectrometry using microscopy for diagnosis and analysis of biological samples3 Mar 2026US 12,566,323 B2Secretary, Department of Biotechnology
- Optical measurement method, optical measurement apparatus, and non-transitory storage medium storing optical measurement program24 Feb 2026US 12,560,790 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Microscopic observation method and microscopic observation device24 Feb 2026US 12,560,794 B2Industrial Technology Research Institute
- Method of improved bright field-dark field metrology1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299276 A1Nanoverse Technologies Ltd
- System and Method for Parallelized 3D Measurement of Multicellular Specimens20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244010 A1Ramona Optics Inc.
- Methods and apparatus for fourier ptychography microscopy using coded illumination6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227620 A1Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
- Multi-functional optical imaging system25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177488 A1
- Detection of interacting cellular bodies18 Jun 2026US 2026/0170856 A1Lumicks Ca Holding B.V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- CCD imager for confocal scanning microscopy57US 6,084,991 AAgilent Technologies, Inc. · 2000
- Brightfield/darkfield microscope illuminator45US 4,585,315 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1986
- Illuminating apparatus for a microscope41US 5,517,353 ANikon Corporation · 1996
- Surgical microscope38US 4,871,245 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1989
- Method and device for optically examining structured surfaces of objects34US 6,633,375 B1Leica Microsystems Semiconductor GmbH · 2003