G02B 27/0927
Systems for changing the beam intensity distribution
Official title: {Systems for changing the beam intensity distribution, e.g. Gaussian to top-hat}
G02B27/0927 (Systems for changing the beam intensity distribution) appears on 1,152 US grants and 1,313 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,152
- Published applications
- 1,313
- Assignees
- 699
- Inventors
- 2,409
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 16 | 38 |
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| 2023 | 60 | 69 |
| 2024 | 71 | 68 |
| 2025 | 58 | 54 |
| 2026 | 27 | 30 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Functionally homogenized intensity distribution for additive manufacturing or other industrial laser processing applications29 Sep 2026US 12,746,599 B2nLIGHT, Inc.
- Laser illumination techniques for capillary electrophoresis29 Sep 2026US 12,748,072 B2Promega Corporation
- Beam-shaping lens, beam-shaping element, light source device for an endoscope, and endoscope8 Sep 2026US 12,727,744 B2Nirec Corporation
- Optical imaging18 Aug 2026US 12,711,578 B2Oxford University Innovation Limited
- Instantaneous non-diffracting light sheets11 Aug 2026US 12,704,706 B2University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc.
- Compact laser beam homogenizer17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276177 A1LaserWorld AG
- Air tolerant photocathode electron gun17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276961 A1Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd.
- See-through computer display systems10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271148 A1Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
- Apparatus for reduction of signal variation in sequencing system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251891 A1Illumina, Inc.
- Optical device, system and method for producing photoacoustic images using homogenised beams from pulsed light sources20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243734 A1Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (Csic)
Most cited
By later US patents
- Laser projection display system492US 6,594,090 B2Eastman Kodak Company · 2003
- Optical beam homogenizer216US 4,475,027 AAllied Corporation · 1984
- Microscope with tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction lens enabling multiple focal plan imaging215US 9,213,175 B22015
- Highly efficient LED lamp178US 6,814,470 B2Farlight LLC · 2004
- Method and apparatus for temporal and spatial beam integration148US 5,646,791 AVISX, Incorporated · 1997