G02B 26/0883
The refracting element being a prism
Official title: {the refracting element being a prism}
G02B26/0883 (The refracting element being a prism) appears on 415 US grants and 423 published applications in this corpus.
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- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 37 | 31 |
| 2025 | 23 | 17 |
| 2026 | 14 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Substrate and method for modifying at least one region of a surface or a portion of a substrate6 Oct 2026US 12,754,371 B2Schott AG
- Optical assembly for scanning lidar system6 Oct 2026US 12,754,414 B2Sz Dji Technology Co., Ltd.
- System for remote wireless charging for electric vehicle using OOFDMA and risley prisms29 Sep 2026US 12,749,923 B2Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yeungnam University
- Compact closed-loop bypass optical beam sensing and correction15 Sep 2026US 12,736,800 B2Raytheon Company
- Marine Lidar system25 Aug 2026US 12,717,088 B2Garmin International, Inc.
- Additive manufacturing systems and related methods utilizing risley prism beam steering8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307171 A1VulcanForms Inc.
- Rotating Beam Switch8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309924 A1nLIGHT, Inc.
- System, method, and apparatus for high precision light beam steering10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267196 A1Exciting Technology LLC
- Night vision binoculars23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211226 A1Thales
- Method and System for Imaging an Elongated Bar Moving Along Its Longitudinal Axis Using a Single Imaging Device16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202651 A1OG Technologies, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical systems for projection displays240US 6,461,000 B1U. S. Precision Lens, Inc. · 2002
- Illumination device including amplitude-division and beam movements157US 5,153,773 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992
- Color image generation systems and applications142US 5,802,222 ALDT Gmb&H Co. Laser-Display-Technologie KG · 1998
- Illumination device including an optical integrator defining a plurality of secondary light sources and related method132US 5,463,497 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1995
- Apparatus for adjusting light beam direction80US 4,850,686 AAsahi Kogaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha · 1989