G02B 5/045
Prism arrays
Official title: {Prism arrays}
G02B5/045 (Prism arrays) appears on 1,364 US grants and 1,693 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,364
- Published applications
- 1,693
- Assignees
- 594
- Inventors
- 3,094
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 58 | 41 |
| 2025 | 40 | 27 |
| 2026 | 18 | 20 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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