G02B 27/0905
Dividing and/or superposing multiple light beams
Official title: {Dividing and/or superposing multiple light beams}
G02B27/0905 (Dividing and/or superposing multiple light beams) appears on 657 US grants and 717 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 657
- Published applications
- 717
- Assignees
- 358
- Inventors
- 1,247
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 14 | 7 |
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| 2004 | 11 | 17 |
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| 2007 | 15 | 26 |
| 2008 | 18 | 13 |
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| 2021 | 41 | 39 |
| 2022 | 37 | 45 |
| 2023 | 36 | 37 |
| 2024 | 34 | 38 |
| 2025 | 30 | 30 |
| 2026 | 18 | 12 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Beam homogenizer and laser irradiation apparatus139US 6,393,042 B1Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd. · 2002
- Laser illumination method133US 6,002,523 ASemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd. · 1999
- Illumination system particularly for EUV lithography111US 6,198,793 B1Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung trading as Carl Zeiss · 2001
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- Apparatus and method for laser radiation103US 5,900,980 ASemiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd. · 1999