G02B 26/0891
Forming an optical wedge
Official title: {forming an optical wedge}
G02B26/0891 (Forming an optical wedge) appears on 169 US grants and 160 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 11 | 6 |
| 2025 | 8 | 12 |
| 2026 | 10 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Illumination device including amplitude-division and beam movements157US 5,153,773 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992
- 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
- Optical apparatus for controlling the direction of a beam of optical radiation64US 4,118,109 AFerranti Limited · 1978
- Beam manipulation using sets of wedges57US 7,319,566 B2Agilent Technologies, Inc. · 2008