G02B 27/0933
Systems for active beam shaping by rapid movement of an element
Official title: {Systems for active beam shaping by rapid movement of an element}
G02B27/0933 (Systems for active beam shaping by rapid movement of an element) appears on 127 US grants and 157 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 157
- Assignees
- 95
- Inventors
- 308
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Laser projection display system492US 6,594,090 B2Eastman Kodak Company · 2003
- Laser beam shaping device and process including a rotating mirror105US 5,925,271 AFraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V. · 1999
- Apparatus and method for providing high intensity non-coherent light and for speckle reduction105US 7,202,466 B2Cadent Ltd. · 2007
- Laser beam homogenization by scanning a beam onto a mask33US 6,574,024 B1Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 2003
- Rotatable aperture apparatus and methods for selective photoablation of surfaces32US 5,651,784 ASummit Technology, Inc. · 1997