G02B 26/0808
By means of one or more diffracting elements
Official title: {by means of one or more diffracting elements}
G02B26/0808 (By means of one or more diffracting elements) appears on 682 US grants and 738 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 682
- Published applications
- 738
- Assignees
- 319
- Inventors
- 1,214
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 26 | 15 |
| 2026 | 16 | 10 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Holographic optical element and production method22 Sep 2026US 12,742,918 B2Robert Bosch GmbH
- Diffractive-based optical system for head-mounted display device25 Aug 2026US 12,717,165 B2Valve Corporation
- Systems and methods of imaging polarimetry through metasurface polarization gratings14 Jul 2026US 12,680,877 B2President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Configurable light emission by selective beam-sweeping16 Jun 2026US 12,656,599 B2Cognex Corporation
- Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods9 Jun 2026US 12,650,608 B2Magic Leap, Inc.
- Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277014 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Transmissive grating-based scanner for small waveguide coupling walk-off23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211237 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Dynamically actuable diffractive optical element23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211255 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Method and apparatus for agile light path steering2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186293 A1NewBridge Partners, Inc.
- Hologram based three-dimensional printing25 Jun 2026US 2026/0181109 A1santec Holdings Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods701US 9,791,700 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Method and apparatus for modulating a light beam609US 5,311,360 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · 1994
- Display device incorporating one-dimensional grating light-valve array488US 5,982,553 ASilicon Light Machines Corporation · 1999
- Optical displays419US 8,233,204 B1Rockwell Collins, Inc. · 2012
- Method and apparatus for modulating a light beam405US 5,808,797 ASilicon Light Machines Corporation · 1998