G02B 5/1876
Diffractive fresnel lenses
Official title: {Diffractive Fresnel lenses; Zone plates; Kinoforms (G02B5/1842, G02B5/1847 take precedence; optical systems having diffractive correction means G02B27/0037; Fresnel lenses operating by refraction G02B3/08)}
G02B5/1876 (Diffractive fresnel lenses) appears on 1,041 US grants and 962 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,041
- Published applications
- 962
- Assignees
- 463
- Inventors
- 1,805
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 21 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Imaging optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same6 Oct 2026US 12,754,399 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Diffraction optical component, wearable displaying device, and fabrication method thereof15 Sep 2026US 12,736,724 B2ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
- Method for deriving a surface profile of a free-form master lens for patterning photo-alignment layers of planar optical components25 Aug 2026US 12,717,188 B2Universiteit Gent
- Devices and methods for performing high-harmonic diffractive lens color compensation7 Jul 2026US 12,674,996 B2Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
- Blazed diffractive optical element and method of manufacturing blazed diffractive optical element16 Jun 2026US 12,656,538 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Method and system for producing light manipulating pattern on a surface8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309903 A1Bar-Ilan University
- Improved lidar imaging device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276791 A1Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
- Meta-optical device and method of manufacturing metasurface27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251819 A1Research & Business Foundation Sungkyunkwan University
- Guided Munition and Optical Assembly with an Annular Folded Optic having an Interface with a Deployable Segment2 Jul 2026US 2026/0185804 A1BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
- Diffractive Lenses Containing Subwavelength Structures and Design Technique2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186180 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Three dimensional virtual and augmented reality display system577US 8,950,867 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2015
- Optical lens for correcting astigmatism451US 5,016,977 AEssilor International-Compagnie Generale · 1991
- Optical element employing aspherical and binary grating optical surfaces427US 5,044,706 AHughes Aircraft Company · 1991
- High-efficiency, multilevel, diffractive optical elements373US 4,895,790 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1990
- Multifocal diffractive ophthalmic lenses326US 5,229,797 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1993