G02B 3/0081
Simple or compound lenses: having one or more elements with analytic function
Official title: {having one or more elements with analytic function to create variable power (variable magnification in general G02B15/00)}
G02B3/0081 (Simple or compound lenses: having one or more elements with analytic function) appears on 191 US grants and 225 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 225
- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 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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Most cited
By later US patents
- Autofocus lens system for indicia readers413US 9,224,022 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2015
- Optical lens system with electro-active lens having alterably different focal lengths247US 6,619,799 B1E-Vision, LLC · 2003
- Microscope with tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction lens enabling multiple focal plan imaging215US 9,213,175 B22015
- Apparatus and method comprising deformable lens element159US 7,813,047 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2010
- System, apparatus, and method for correcting vision using an electro-active lens133US 6,918,670 B2E-Vision, LLC · 2005