G02B 27/0977
Reflective elements
Official title: {Reflective elements}
G02B27/0977 (Reflective elements) appears on 863 US grants and 955 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 863
- Published applications
- 955
- Assignees
- 508
- Inventors
- 1,912
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2020 | 100 | 83 |
| 2021 | 106 | 57 |
| 2022 | 62 | 63 |
| 2023 | 52 | 48 |
| 2024 | 50 | 56 |
| 2025 | 41 | 38 |
| 2026 | 34 | 16 |
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
- Display device29 Sep 2026US 12,751,184 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Lidar system with polygon mirror1 Sep 2026US 12,724,149 B2Microvision, Inc.
- Methods and apparatus to map multi-display positions18 Aug 2026US 12,710,910 B2Intel Corporation
- Cordless and rechargeable resin-curing lamp1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295906 A1
- Systems and methods for optically displaying at a set of spectacles20 Aug 2026US 2026/0244023 A1Microoled
- Tunable bessel beam module23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211252 A1The Trustees of Princeton University
- Air floating video display apparatus23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211263 A1Maxell, Ltd.
- Light guide element, observation optical system, and display apparatus16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202665 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical beam homogenizer216US 4,475,027 AAllied Corporation · 1984
- Highly efficient LED lamp178US 6,814,470 B2Farlight LLC · 2004
- Display system169US 8,767,306 B1Google Inc. · 2014
- Beam homogenizer and laser irradiation apparatus139US 6,393,042 B1Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd. · 2002
- Low profile lidar scanner with polygon mirror119US 10,571,567 B2Luminar Technologies, Inc. · 2020