G02B 3/0087
Simple or compound lenses: with index gradient
Official title: {with index gradient}
G02B3/0087 (Simple or compound lenses: with index gradient) appears on 788 US grants and 660 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method for deriving a surface profile of a free-form master lens for patterning photo-alignment layers of planar optical components25 Aug 2026US 12,717,188 B2Universiteit Gent
- Optical element with 3D gradient refractive index11 Aug 2026US 12,704,736 B2Edmund Optics, Inc.
- Display for augmented reality and virtual reality systems7 Jul 2026US 12,674,918 B2Kent State University
- Apparatus and methods for heating tunability in processing chambers30 Jun 2026US 12,669,677 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Artificially curved optical detector, and methods and systems of making and using23 Jun 2026US 12,663,613 B2University of Rochester
- Hybrid optical elements integrating homogeneous and heterogenous composition8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309988 A1
- In-fiber beam shaping with short-focal-length lenses1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299220 A1
- Optical connection assembly17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276905 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Hybrid liquid crystal lens and method for driving thereof17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277071 A1IXI Eyewear Oy
- Optimized additive manufacturing of optics27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249557 A1Vadient Optics, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Microscope with tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction lens enabling multiple focal plan imaging215US 9,213,175 B22015
- Illumination device including amplitude-division and beam movements157US 5,153,773 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992
- Two path liquid crystal light valve color display with light coupling lens array disposed along the red-green light path156US 5,315,418 AXerox Corporation · 1994
- Optical filter using microlens arrays156US 5,351,151 A1994
- Teleconferencing imaging system with automatic camera steering140US 5,686,957 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1997