G02B 5/1852
Using mechanical means
Official title: {using mechanical means, e.g. ruling with diamond tool, moulding}
G02B5/1852 (Using mechanical means) appears on 275 US grants and 334 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 275
- Published applications
- 334
- Assignees
- 175
- Inventors
- 701
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2005 | 5 | 13 |
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| 2024 | 8 | 16 |
| 2025 | 19 | 13 |
| 2026 | 11 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Diffractive optical element and method of manufacturing diffractive optical element6 Oct 2026US 12,754,355 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Surface treatment for replication15 Sep 2026US 12,736,871 B2NILT Switzerland GmbH
- Methods to reduce optical loss of an AR waveguide8 Sep 2026US 12,730,256 B2APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Cholesteric liquid crystal film and manufacturing method thereof26 May 2026US 12,638,621 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Precision freeform structuring for the fabrication of coded lenses5 May 2026US 12,617,020 B2Northwestern University
- Method for manufacturing a diffractive optical element6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227554 A1Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Non-Planar Metasurfaces And Related Fabrication Methods16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202591 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Guided-mode resonant grating, optical member, optical product, and method for manufacturing guided-mode resonant grating9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194697 A1Tohoku University
- Diffractive optical element, method for manufacturing same, hologram using same, vr/ar device using same, and hud using same2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186181 A1Korea University Research and Business Foundation
- Nano imprint master, optical waveguide, and method for preparing same25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177906 A1Sunny Omnilight Nanooptics Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Procedure for fabrication of microstructures over large areas using physical replication143US 4,512,848 AExxon Research & Engineering Co. · 1985
- Diffractive optical element and method for manufacturing the same, and imaging apparatus using the diffractive optical element112US 7,864,427 B2Panasonic Corporation · 2011
- Optical components85US 9,429,692 B1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC · 2016
- Optical detection of label-free biomolecular interactions using microreplicated plastic sensor elements65US 6,951,715 B2SRU Biosystems, Inc. · 2005
- Reliable, modular, production quality narrow-band high rep rate ArF excimer laser60US 6,330,261 B1Cymer, Inc. · 2001