G02B 6/0028
Light guide
Official title: {Light guide, e.g. taper}
G02B6/0028 (Light guide) appears on 1,246 US grants and 1,466 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,246
- Published applications
- 1,466
- Assignees
- 527
- Inventors
- 2,225
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 44 | 42 |
| 2026 | 18 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Wide-area illumination panels employing flexible printed circuits and side-emitting LEDs22 Sep 2026US 12,742,536 B2S.V.V. Technology Innovations, Inc.
- Aperture multiplier with depolarizer8 Sep 2026US 12,730,308 B2Lumus Ltd.
- Microlens collimator for scanning optical fiber in virtual/augmented reality system1 Sep 2026US 12,724,271 B2Magic Leap, Inc.
- Film-based lightguide with interior light directing edges and lateral reflections25 Aug 2026US 12,717,076 B2Azumo, Inc.
- Vehicle window and method for producing a vehicle window16 Jun 2026US 12,654,615 B2Webasto SE
- Light coupling element10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267051 A13M Innovative Properties Company
- Manufacturing method for a waveguide20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243945 A1Lumus Ltd.
- Light guide30 Jul 2026US 2026/0217188 A1Valeo Vision
- Light guide for a backlight unit, backlight unit and display device30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219437 A1Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
- Flexible and transparent light guide for a light device23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211170 A1Valeo Vision
Most cited
By later US patents
- Multiple depth plane three-dimensional display using a wave guide reflector array projector563US 9,310,559 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2016
- Light guide optical device506US 7,457,040 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2008
- Light guide optical device489US 8,004,765 B2Lumus Ltd. · 2011
- Uniform illumination system488US 7,072,096 B2Digital Optics International Corporation · 2006
- High-density illumination system467US 6,871,982 B2Digital Optics International Corporation · 2005