G02B 3/0031
Replication or moulding
Official title: {Replication or moulding, e.g. hot embossing, UV-casting, injection moulding}
G02B3/0031 (Replication or moulding) appears on 615 US grants and 745 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 615
- Published applications
- 745
- Assignees
- 338
- Inventors
- 1,490
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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| 2026 | 6 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method of producing mold for microlens array through cutting28 Jul 2026US 12,693,451 B2Nalux Co., Ltd.
- Method for manufacturing roll mold, roll mold manufacturing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, microlens array, and roll mold23 Jun 2026US 12,661,715 B2Dexerials Corporation
- Optical device and injection molding method for producing same5 May 2026US 12,619,012 B2FEV Group GmbH
- Abrasion resistance for patterned lens31 Mar 2026US 12,591,081 B2HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.
- Microlens array for acquiring multi-focus plenoptic image and method of manufacturing the same3 Mar 2026US 12,566,281 B2Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Abrasion Resistance For Patterned Lens10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267035 A1HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.
- Lens array and optical refractive panel and spectacles lens10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267036 A1
- Lighting device for a motor vehicle9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194199 A1Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
- Light shaping optical device9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194691 A1Viavi Solutions Inc.
- Overmolded lenses18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169270 A1Heptagon Photonics Pte. Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for multiple camera devices and method of operating same466US 7,199,348 B2Newport Imaging Corporation · 2007
- Compact digital camera with segmented fields of view362US 6,137,535 AEastman Kodak Company · 2000
- Microlens array substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and display device213US 6,909,121 B2Seiko Epson Corporation · 2005
- Digital cameras with direct luminance and chrominance detection208US 7,964,835 B2Protarius Filo AG, L.L.C. · 2011
- Lenticular optical system200US 5,642,226 A1997