G02B 6/0015
Provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk
Official title: {provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk of it}
G02B6/0015 (Provided on the surface of the light guide or in the bulk) appears on 3,820 US grants and 4,595 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 3,820
- Published applications
- 4,595
- Assignees
- 1,089
- Inventors
- 6,505
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 3 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 2 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 8 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 4 | 0 |
| 1991 | 9 | 0 |
| 1992 | 7 | 0 |
| 1993 | 7 | 0 |
| 1994 | 5 | 0 |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 10 | 0 |
| 1997 | 15 | 0 |
| 1998 | 18 | 0 |
| 1999 | 20 | 0 |
| 2000 | 30 | 0 |
| 2001 | 17 | 18 |
| 2002 | 35 | 41 |
| 2003 | 49 | 66 |
| 2004 | 46 | 86 |
| 2005 | 49 | 97 |
| 2006 | 58 | 167 |
| 2007 | 85 | 149 |
| 2008 | 94 | 191 |
| 2009 | 94 | 176 |
| 2010 | 141 | 167 |
| 2011 | 109 | 190 |
| 2012 | 129 | 186 |
| 2013 | 141 | 188 |
| 2014 | 161 | 207 |
| 2015 | 156 | 224 |
| 2016 | 143 | 225 |
| 2017 | 204 | 246 |
| 2018 | 185 | 236 |
| 2019 | 290 | 265 |
| 2020 | 295 | 302 |
| 2021 | 265 | 277 |
| 2022 | 241 | 228 |
| 2023 | 198 | 226 |
| 2024 | 197 | 203 |
| 2025 | 188 | 164 |
| 2026 | 89 | 70 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Waveguide manufacturing methods6 Oct 2026US 12,754,361 B2RealD Spark, LLC
- Waveguide display having phase compensation layers6 Oct 2026US 12,754,375 B1Apple Inc.
- Light source module and electrophoretic display device29 Sep 2026US 12,748,333 B2E Ink Holdings Inc.
- Wide-area illumination panels employing flexible printed circuits and side-emitting LEDs22 Sep 2026US 12,742,536 B2S.V.V. Technology Innovations, Inc.
- Optical system with waveguide redirecting reflector22 Sep 2026US 12,742,919 B1Apple Inc.
- Display structure8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309989 A1Dispelix Oy
- Compact display with extended pixel resolution1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299182 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Waveguides having integrated spacers, waveguides having edge absorbers, and methods for making the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299187 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Method to improve display efficiency and uniformity of ar waveguide1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299304 A1APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Backlight module and electronic device having the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276878 A1Advanced Optoelectronic Technology, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Compact head-up display521US 4,711,512 AEnvironmental Research Institute of Michigan · 1987
- Light guide optical device506US 7,457,040 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2008
- Light guide optical device489US 8,004,765 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2011
- Substrate-guided optical beam expander453US 6,829,095 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2004
- Lighting unit351US 5,375,043 AInoue Denki Co., Inc. · 1994