G02B 26/12
Using multifaceted mirrors
Official title: using multifaceted mirrors
G02B26/12 (Using multifaceted mirrors) appears on 3,593 US grants and 2,793 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 3,593
- Published applications
- 2,793
- Assignees
- 586
- Inventors
- 3,583
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 39 | 37 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G02B 26/123Multibeam scanners1,116
- G02B 26/125Details of the optical system between the polygonal mirror and the image942
- G02B 26/127Adaptive control of the scanning light beam661
- G02B 26/121Mechanical drive devices for polygonal mirrors544
- G02B 26/124Details of the optical system between the light source and the polygonal479
- G02B 26/129Systems in which the scanning light beam is repeatedly reflected from the101
Recent patents
- Casing for optical scanning device, including positioning mechanism that positions main body on upper side with respect to main body on lower side, in horizontal and height directions, and optical scanning device having such casing6 Oct 2026US 12,752,559 B2KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,748,362 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- High energy efficiency laser lighting system and method for high-value plantation15 Sep 2026US 12,733,597 B1
- Lidar system with polygon mirror1 Sep 2026US 12,724,149 B2Microvision, Inc.
- Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus25 Aug 2026US 12,717,129 B2Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
- Kaleidoscopic geometric vision platform1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299284 A1Summer Robotics, Inc.
- High energy efficiency laser lighting system and method for high-value plantation17 Sep 2026US 2026/0271838 A1
- Hybrid two-dimensional steering lidar17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276793 A1Voyant Photonics, Inc.
- Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus incorporating the same10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267256 A1KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
- Scanning optical device and image forming apparatus3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259518 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus1,019US 7,598,972 B2Ricoh Company, Ltd. · 2009
- Laser scanning assembly having an improved scan angle-multiplication factor541US 8,408,469 B2Metrologic Instruments, Inc. · 2013
- Method of selectively projecting scan lines in a multiple-line barcode scanner540US 8,371,507 B2Metrologic Instruments, Inc. · 2013
- Aiming beam system for optical data reading device237US 5,296,689 ASpectra-Physics Scanning Systems, Inc. · 1994
- Method and apparatus for performing optical imaging using frequency-domain interferometry229US 7,733,497 B2The General Hospital Corporation · 2010