G02B 3/04
With continuous faces that are rotationally symmetrical but deviate from a true
Official title: with continuous faces that are rotationally symmetrical but deviate from a true sphere {, e.g. so called "aspheric" lenses}
G02B3/04 (With continuous faces that are rotationally symmetrical but deviate from a true) appears on 1,064 US grants and 1,108 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,064
- Published applications
- 1,108
- Assignees
- 430
- Inventors
- 1,712
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2025 | 51 | 44 |
| 2026 | 32 | 29 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical component integrally formed of transparent rectangular solid portion and lens, and optical module using the same29 Sep 2026US 12,748,243 B2Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Meta lens and optical apparatus including the same29 Sep 2026US 12,748,244 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Beam-shaping lens, beam-shaping element, light source device for an endoscope, and endoscope8 Sep 2026US 12,727,744 B2Nirec Corporation
- Optical module and head-mounted display8 Sep 2026US 12,730,319 B2Goertek Optical Technology Co., Ltd.
- Optical imaging lens1 Sep 2026US 12,724,241 B2Genius Electronic Optical (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.
- Optical lens assembly, imaging apparatus and electronic device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299166 A1Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
- Photographing optical lens system, image capturing unit and electronic device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299263 A1Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
- Optical imaging system and camera module including the same10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267114 A1Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
- Accommodating intraocular lenses and methods of manufacturing27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248607 A1Alcon Inc.
- Optical module and head-mounted display device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251900 A1Goertek Optical Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Eyeglass display lens system employing off-axis optical design331US 6,353,503 B1The Micropitical Corporation · 2002
- Imaging using a multifocal aspheric lens to obtain extended depth of field271US 6,927,922 B2University of Rochester · 2005
- Optical image capturing system212US 8,599,495 B1Largan Precision Co., Ltd. · 2013
- Light emitting diode array and optical image forming apparatus with light emitting diode array132US 5,838,024 ARicoh Company, Ltd. · 1998
- Image capturing lens and image capturing apparatus provided with the image capturing lens124US 8,810,923 B2FUJIFILM Corporation · 2014