G02B 26/004
Based on a displacement or a deformation of a fluid
Official title: {based on a displacement or a deformation of a fluid}
G02B26/004 (Based on a displacement or a deformation of a fluid) appears on 1,830 US grants and 2,050 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 78 | 66 |
| 2025 | 71 | 48 |
| 2026 | 41 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Device and a method of manufacturing a device, such as a liquid lens, with bond configured to fracture at the same burst pressure15 Sep 2026US 12,736,717 B2Corning Incorporated
- Spatially variable hydrophobic layers for digital microfluidics8 Sep 2026US 12,730,300 B2Nuclera Ltd
- Optical systems with switchable lenses for mitigating variations in ambient brightness25 Aug 2026US 12,717,139 B2
- Optical part assembly28 Jul 2026US 12,693,524 B2Disco Corporation
- Variable aperture, camera module, and electronic device28 Jul 2026US 12,693,575 B2Vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
- Optical assembly8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309898 A1Optotune Switzerland AG
- Device for applying voltage to liquid8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309975 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Apparatus for applying voltage to liquid and method for manufacturing same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287883 A1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Device and a method of manufacturing a device, such as a liquid lens, with bonds configured to fracture at the same burst pressure10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267038 A1Corning Incorporated
- Tunable Lens with Actuator Brakes3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259401 A1Apple Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Focus module and components with actuator544US 8,687,282 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2014
- Actuators for microfluidics without moving parts497US 6,565,727 B1Nanolytics, Inc. · 2003
- Apparatus for manipulating droplets by electrowetting-based techniques444US 6,911,132 B2Duke University · 2005
- Electro-wetting displays426US 7,420,549 B2E Ink Corporation · 2008
- Method, apparatus and article for microfluidic control via electrowetting, for chemical, biochemical and biological assays and the like324US 7,163,612 B2Keck Graduate Institute · 2007