G02B 6/0026
Wavelength selective element, sheet or layer
Official title: {Wavelength selective element, sheet or layer, e.g. filter or grating}
G02B6/0026 (Wavelength selective element, sheet or layer) appears on 662 US grants and 727 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 662
- Published applications
- 727
- Assignees
- 243
- Inventors
- 1,229
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2023 | 42 | 34 |
| 2024 | 39 | 35 |
| 2025 | 33 | 21 |
| 2026 | 15 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Color-selective waveguides for augmented reality/mixed reality applications17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276981 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical device and virtual image display device308US 7,418,170 B2Sony Corporation · 2008
- Optical device and virtual image display device208US 7,747,113 B2Sony Corporation · 2010
- Optical fiber/waveguide illumination system187US 6,272,269 B1DN Labs, Inc. · 2001
- Display board illuminated by refracted light146US 5,124,890 A1992
- Optical waveguide display system118US 5,106,181 A1992