G02B 27/022
Viewing apparatus
Official title: {Viewing apparatus (G02B27/04, G02B27/06, G02B27/08 take precedence)}
G02B27/022 (Viewing apparatus) appears on 655 US grants and 548 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Inventors
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- Latest grant
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| 2025 | 21 | 16 |
| 2026 | 18 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Light guide optical device506US 7,457,040 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2008
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- Head mounted video display and remote camera system330US 5,005,213 AVaro, Inc. · 1991
- Light guide optical device278US 7,576,916 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2009
- Head-mounted display apparatus for retaining a portable electronic device with display271US 8,957,835 B2Apple Inc. · 2015