G02B 27/0172
Characterised by optical features
Official title: {characterised by optical features}
G02B27/0172 (Characterised by optical features) appears on 13,037 US grants and 16,083 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 13,037
- Published applications
- 16,083
- Assignees
- 2,040
- Inventors
- 15,768
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 48 | 0 |
| 1998 | 74 | 0 |
| 1999 | 57 | 0 |
| 2000 | 64 | 0 |
| 2001 | 67 | 28 |
| 2002 | 62 | 81 |
| 2003 | 54 | 43 |
| 2004 | 54 | 54 |
| 2005 | 31 | 44 |
| 2006 | 38 | 47 |
| 2007 | 32 | 60 |
| 2008 | 41 | 60 |
| 2009 | 52 | 63 |
| 2010 | 43 | 86 |
| 2011 | 38 | 86 |
| 2012 | 69 | 115 |
| 2013 | 68 | 148 |
| 2014 | 118 | 222 |
| 2015 | 160 | 627 |
| 2016 | 311 | 788 |
| 2017 | 532 | 907 |
| 2018 | 669 | 1134 |
| 2019 | 1084 | 1265 |
| 2020 | 1382 | 1555 |
| 2021 | 1350 | 1577 |
| 2022 | 1352 | 1504 |
| 2023 | 1413 | 1629 |
| 2024 | 1368 | 1613 |
| 2025 | 1383 | 1423 |
| 2026 | 823 | 924 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical laminate, light guide element, and image display apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,356 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- 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
- Waveguide display having phase compensation layers6 Oct 2026US 12,754,375 B1Apple Inc.
- Methods, systems, apparatuses, and devices for facilitating provisioning of a virtual experience6 Oct 2026US 12,754,422 B2Red Six Aerospace Inc.
- High-contrast pancake lens with pass-polarization absorber6 Oct 2026US 12,754,423 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Maskless coating as a patterning mask for external stimuli in depositions8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309907 A1APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Optical device, electronic device including same, display method, control method, and control device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309983 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Frame-based light notifications on a wearable device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309984 A1Google Inc.
- Angular offset display and illumination8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309985 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Lens control device using artificial intelligence and smart variable-focus lens and lens control method using the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309986 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
Most cited
By later US patents
- Display system and method781US 9,417,452 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2016
- Planar waveguide apparatus with diffraction element(s) and system employing same761US 9,671,566 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods701US 9,791,700 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Apparatus for optical see-through head mounted display with mutual occlusion and opaqueness control capability688US 9,547,174 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Ergonomic head mounted display device and optical system641US 9,348,143 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2016