G02B 5/1809
With pitch less than or comparable to the wavelength
Official title: {with pitch less than or comparable to the wavelength}
G02B5/1809 (With pitch less than or comparable to the wavelength) appears on 655 US grants and 844 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 655
- Published applications
- 844
- Assignees
- 375
- Inventors
- 1,525
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 1 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 2 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 3 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 9 |
| 2003 | 4 | 25 |
| 2004 | 5 | 21 |
| 2005 | 12 | 14 |
| 2006 | 22 | 28 |
| 2007 | 18 | 24 |
| 2008 | 14 | 24 |
| 2009 | 10 | 19 |
| 2010 | 11 | 22 |
| 2011 | 19 | 26 |
| 2012 | 18 | 29 |
| 2013 | 18 | 29 |
| 2014 | 21 | 29 |
| 2015 | 23 | 28 |
| 2016 | 27 | 28 |
| 2017 | 19 | 38 |
| 2018 | 24 | 47 |
| 2019 | 52 | 42 |
| 2020 | 35 | 61 |
| 2021 | 49 | 54 |
| 2022 | 43 | 64 |
| 2023 | 42 | 70 |
| 2024 | 49 | 44 |
| 2025 | 52 | 34 |
| 2026 | 32 | 35 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Diffractive optical waveguide display apparatus8 Sep 2026US 12,730,311 B2Nanchang Virtual Reality Research Institute Co., Ltd.
- Electrically controlled metasurface for large-angle beam steering and LIDAR applications25 Aug 2026US 12,717,208 B2Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur FöRderung Der Wissenschaften E. V.
- Metasurface, metalens, and metalens array with controllable angular field-of-view11 Aug 2026US 12,704,659 B2The Regents of the University of California
- Input/output coupling grating and display including the same4 Aug 2026US 12,699,270 B2Magic Leap, Inc.
- Ultrasonication nano-geometry control process and methods21 Jul 2026US 12,687,668 B2Magic Leap, Inc.
- Input/output coupling grating and display including the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299305 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Improved lidar imaging device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276791 A1Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Aperture-Metasurface and Hybrid Refractive-Metasurface Imaging Systems17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282578 A1Metalenz, Inc.
- Metagrating out-coupler and anti-reflective laminae10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267042 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Meta-optical device and method of manufacturing metasurface27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251819 A1Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
Most cited
By later US patents
- Broadband wire grid polarizer for the visible spectrum328US 6,122,103 AMoxtech · 2000
- Imbedded wire grid polarizer for the visible spectrum219US 6,288,840 B1Moxtek, Inc. · 2001
- Optical filter including a sub-wavelength periodic structure and method of making181US 5,726,805 ASandia Corporation · 1998
- Optical element and optical pickup device comprising it169US 5,085,496 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1992
- Method of fabricating high efficiency binary planar optical elements142US 4,846,552 AThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force · 1989