G02B 27/1086
Operating by diffraction only
Official title: {operating by diffraction only}
G02B27/1086 (Operating by diffraction only) appears on 781 US grants and 795 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 781
- Published applications
- 795
- Assignees
- 429
- Inventors
- 1,710
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2002 | 20 | 27 |
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| 2024 | 31 | 46 |
| 2025 | 31 | 27 |
| 2026 | 28 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Lidar system with polygon mirror1 Sep 2026US 12,724,149 B2Microvision, Inc.
- Multiband scanning and fiber bundle to enable reduced light source intensity and improved imaging quality25 Aug 2026US 12,720,229 B2Illumina, Inc.
- Hybrid depth imaging with sparse subject irradiation18 Aug 2026US 12,710,542 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Vehicle display systems and methods with multifunction holographic RLAD devices18 Aug 2026US 12,710,649 B2GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Beam combining grating with integrated apodizer11 Aug 2026US 12,704,667 B2Raytheon Company
- Optical engine system, display method and display apparatus for display screen, device, medium, and product1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299311 A1Ningbo Top Micron Semiconductor Co. Ltd.
- Line Pattern Projector Incorporating One or More Metasurfaces20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243922 A1Metalenz, Inc.
- Compact Head-Up Display and Waveguide Therefor13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235883 A1Envisics Ltd
- Apparatus for fabricating cover window, method for fabricating cover window, and electronic device including cover window13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235885 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Sighting or viewing telescope16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202170 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optics arrangements including light source arrangements for an active matrix liquid crystal image generator365US 5,808,800 ADisplaytech, Inc. · 1998
- Multi-plane optical apparatus310US 7,573,640 B2Mirage Innovations Ltd. · 2009
- Optics arrangement including light source arrangement for an active matrix liquid crystal image generator241US 6,195,136 B1Displaytech, Inc. · 2001
- Embedded relay lens for head-up displays or the like239US 7,656,585 B1Microvision, Inc. · 2010
- Multilayer dielectric diffraction gratings238US 5,907,436 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1999