G02B 5/1847
Manufacturing methods
Official title: {Manufacturing methods}
G02B5/1847 (Manufacturing methods) appears on 1,291 US grants and 1,496 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 611
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| 2026 | 60 | 58 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Diffractive optical element and method of manufacturing diffractive optical element6 Oct 2026US 12,754,355 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Optical devices including metastructures and methods for fabricating the optical devices29 Sep 2026US 12,748,240 B2NIL Technology ApS
- Lensless imaging system, method of manufacturing lensless imaging system, and electronic apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,748,246 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Method for creating surface microstructures15 Sep 2026US 12,736,723 B2Rolic Technologies AG
- Diffraction optical component, wearable displaying device, and fabrication method thereof15 Sep 2026US 12,736,724 B2ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
- Input/output coupling grating and display including the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299305 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Grating structure and processing method therefor, lens and head-mounted display device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287805 A1Goertek Optical Technology Co., Ltd.
- Field etch to enhance image sharpness of augmented reality waveguide combiners17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276873 A1APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Solid-state imaging element and method of manufacturing the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282575 A1Toppan Holdings Inc.
- Metagrating out-coupler and anti-reflective laminae10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267042 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Formation of microstamped patterns on surfaces and derivative articles1,049US 5,512,131 APresident and Fellows of Harvard College · 1996
- High-efficiency, multilevel, diffractive optical elements373US 4,895,790 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1990
- Microcontact printing on surfaces and derivative articles267US 6,180,239 B2President and Fellows of Harvard College · 2001
- Methods of etching articles via microcontact printing243US 5,900,160 APresident and Fellows of Harvard College · 1999
- Multilayer dielectric diffraction gratings238US 5,907,436 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1999