G02B 27/0012
Optical design
Official title: {Optical design, e.g. procedures, algorithms, optimisation routines}
G02B27/0012 (Optical design) appears on 788 US grants and 1,026 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 788
- Published applications
- 1,026
- Assignees
- 494
- Inventors
- 1,948
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 34 | 43 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method for online obtaining an initially extrinsic parameter of fisheye-lens cameras applied to surround-view stitching6 Oct 2026US 12,754,416 B2VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Optical device, subassembly of optical device, and method of manufacturing optical device22 Sep 2026US 12,742,962 B2Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
- Method for optimizing or online optimizing extrinsic parameters of fisheye-lens cameras applied to surround-view stitching15 Sep 2026US 12,736,804 B2VIA Technologies, Inc.
- Method and system for quantum key distribution8 Sep 2026US 12,730,303 B2Terra Quantum AG
- Optical lens assembly25 Aug 2026US 12,717,118 B2Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
- Devices to direct the path of electromagnetic radiation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309979 A1Corning Incorporated
- Calibration method for transmittance of optical lens1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299287 A1Changsha Lubon Photoelectric Technology Co., Ltd.
- Optical system control device, optical system control method, and recording medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303212 A1NEC Corporation
- Creating 3D Objects and Digital 3D Objects24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288113 A1Illusory Material, Inc.
- Systems and methods for inverse design of optical multilayer thin film structures utilizing a foundation model17 Sep 2026US 2026/0278221 A1The Regents of the University of Michigan
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By later US patents
- LED device for wide beam generation202US 7,674,018 B2Illumination Management Solutions, Inc. · 2010
- Compact folded-optics illumination lens187US 6,896,381 B2Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC · 2005
- Compact folded-optics illumination lens176US 7,181,378 B2Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC · 2007
- Compact folded-optics illumination lens166US 7,152,985 B2Light Prescriptions Innovators, LLC · 2006
- Illuminating lens designed by extrinsic differential geometry134US 5,924,788 ATeledyne Lighting and Display Products, Inc. · 1999