G02B 6/0016
Grooves, prisms, gratings, scattering particles or rough surfaces
Official title: {Grooves, prisms, gratings, scattering particles or rough surfaces}
G02B6/0016 (Grooves, prisms, gratings, scattering particles or rough surfaces) appears on 1,246 US grants and 1,588 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,246
- Published applications
- 1,588
- Assignees
- 471
- Inventors
- 2,372
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 14 | 17 |
| 2004 | 4 | 19 |
| 2005 | 12 | 17 |
| 2006 | 16 | 38 |
| 2007 | 21 | 38 |
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| 2011 | 20 | 26 |
| 2012 | 30 | 39 |
| 2013 | 37 | 47 |
| 2014 | 36 | 63 |
| 2015 | 37 | 74 |
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| 2017 | 66 | 85 |
| 2018 | 57 | 105 |
| 2019 | 111 | 100 |
| 2020 | 119 | 137 |
| 2021 | 101 | 120 |
| 2022 | 106 | 105 |
| 2023 | 83 | 109 |
| 2024 | 90 | 124 |
| 2025 | 95 | 96 |
| 2026 | 53 | 43 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Compact head-up display521US 4,711,512 AEnvironmental Research Institute of Michigan · 1987
- Multi-plane optical apparatus310US 7,573,640 B2Mirage Innovations Ltd. · 2009
- Method and system for beam expansion in a display device285US 7,206,107 B2Nokia Corporation · 2007
- Planar holographic optical device for beam expansion and display228US 6,169,613 AYeda Research & Devel Co., Ltd. · 2001
- Image waveguide with mirror arrays215US 8,189,263 B1Google Inc. · 2012