G02B 6/0045
By shaping at least a portion of the light guide
Official title: {by shaping at least a portion of the light guide}
G02B6/0045 (By shaping at least a portion of the light guide) appears on 1,937 US grants and 2,114 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 2,114
- Assignees
- 666
- Inventors
- 3,586
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 24 | 23 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Substrate and method for modifying at least one region of a surface or a portion of a substrate6 Oct 2026US 12,754,371 B2Schott AG
- LED luminaire with light guide and optical element29 Sep 2026US 12,748,252 B2Quarkstar LLC
- Backlight module1 Sep 2026US 12,724,190 B2Innolux Corporation
- Lighting module and lighting device having same1 Sep 2026US 12,724,191 B2LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Emblem18 Aug 2026US 12,709,237 B2Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho
- Track lighting system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287133 A1Signify Holding B. V.
- Mixed-reality waveguide combiner with reduced world-side leakage3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259362 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Display device and method of manufacturing the same3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259449 A1Beijing Boe Display Technology Co., Ltd.
- Component for a vehicle and radiator grille having such a component27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251785 A1Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Display device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251836 A1Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Light guide and lateral illuminator1,026US 6,836,611 B2J. W. Speaker Corporation · 2004
- Thin panel illuminator460US 5,005,108 ALumitex, Inc. · 1991
- Efficient collimation of light with optical wedge331US 7,970,246 B2Microsoft Corporation · 2011
- Faceted light pipe322US 5,050,946 ACompaq Computer Corporation · 1991
- Virtual image display device318US 8,564,883 B2Seiko Epson Corporation · 2013