G02B 6/0018
Redirecting means on the surface of the light guide
Official title: {Redirecting means on the surface of the light guide}
G02B6/0018 (Redirecting means on the surface of the light guide) appears on 943 US grants and 1,077 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- 435
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- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Waveguide manufacture23 Jun 2026US 12,663,576 B2Envisics Ltd
- Waveguide26 May 2026US 12,638,630 B2BAE SYSTEMS plc
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- Light guide plate design for asymmetric lighting27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251834 A1Signify Holding B. V.
- Manufacturing method for a waveguide20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243945 A1Lumus Ltd.
- Method for coating an optically reflective layer on a waveguide and screen printing device30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217599 A1
- Optical element, light guide element, and ar display device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211155 A1Sharp Display Technology Corporation
- Illuminated glazing element with a coated reflective structure for light coupling16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202603 A1Saint-Gobain Sekurit France
Most cited
By later US patents
- 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
- Side emitting LED and lens330US 6,679,621 B2Lumileds Lighting U.S., LLC · 2004
- Virtual image display device and manufacturing method of virtual image display device321US 8,711,487 B2Seiko Epson Corporation · 2014