G02B 27/0938
Using specific optical elements
Official title: {Using specific optical elements}
G02B27/0938 (Using specific optical elements) appears on 4,471 US grants and 4,969 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 4,471
- Published applications
- 4,969
- Assignees
- 1,793
- Inventors
- 8,551
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 48 | 89 |
| 2004 | 63 | 100 |
| 2005 | 84 | 136 |
| 2006 | 92 | 193 |
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| 2023 | 250 | 245 |
| 2024 | 257 | 260 |
| 2025 | 209 | 190 |
| 2026 | 138 | 115 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Light source unit and image display device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,420 B2Nichia Corporation
- Field of view expansion by image light redirection6 Oct 2026US 12,754,430 B2Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Functionally homogenized intensity distribution for additive manufacturing or other industrial laser processing applications29 Sep 2026US 12,746,599 B2nLIGHT, Inc.
- Optical system for sample processing instrument and sample processing instrument29 Sep 2026US 12,748,035 B2Beckman Coulter Biotechnology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
- Display device29 Sep 2026US 12,751,184 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Optical device, electronic device including same, display method, control method, and control device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309983 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Optical waveguide with aperture iris8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310002 A1Lumus Ltd.
- Cordless and rechargeable resin-curing lamp1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295906 A1
- Optical device for modifying a light beam1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299273 A1Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
- Flow cytometer, laser optics assembly thereof, and methods of assembling the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276940 A1IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Laser projection display system492US 6,594,090 B2Eastman Kodak Company · 2003
- Uniform illumination system488US 7,072,096 B2Digital Optics International Corporation · 2006
- Side emitting LED and lens330US 6,679,621 B2Lumileds Lighting U.S., LLC · 2004
- Holographic optical devices327US 6,580,529 B1ELOP Electro-Optics Industries Ltd. · 2003
- Controlled lighting methods and apparatus325US 7,845,823 B2Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions, Inc. · 2010