G02B 27/142
Coating structures
Official title: {Coating structures, e.g. thin films multilayers}
G02B27/142 (Coating structures) appears on 281 US grants and 300 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method and system utilizing inverted master for holographic recording23 Jun 2026US 12,663,572 B2DigiLens Inc.
- Partial beam splitter, stack comprising two or more such partial beam splitters and method of manufacturing such a partial beam splitter23 Jun 2026US 12,663,658 B2Schott AG
- Catadioptric lens module21 Apr 2026US 12,607,868 B2Apple Inc.
- Modulating retroreflector supporting multi-channel communication and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309902 A1Raytheon Company
- Optical system, in particular for characterizing a microlithography mask24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287914 A1Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
- Polarization beam splitting apparatus, light source apparatus, display apparatus, and illumination apparatus10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267156 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Optical module and head-mounted display device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251900 A1Goertek Optical Technology Co., Ltd.
- Catadioptric Lens Module30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219507 A1Apple Inc.
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By later US patents
- Methods and apparatus for creating an aspheric optical element and the aspheric optical elements formed thereby109US 5,724,189 AMcDonnell Douglas Corporation · 1998
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- See-through computer display systems78US 9,933,622 B2Osterhout Group, Inc. · 2018
- See-through computer display systems75US 9,720,234 B2Osterhout Group, Inc. · 2017