G02B 6/0058
Varying in density, size, shape or depth along the light guide
Official title: {varying in density, size, shape or depth along the light guide}
G02B6/0058 (Varying in density, size, shape or depth along the light guide) appears on 2,116 US grants and 2,478 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 2,478
- Assignees
- 815
- Inventors
- 4,194
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2022 | 109 | 97 |
| 2023 | 77 | 89 |
| 2024 | 100 | 79 |
| 2025 | 66 | 71 |
| 2026 | 37 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Interior equipment for a motor vehicle having a lighting module with a flexible guide sheet6 Oct 2026US 12,752,700 B2Valeo Vision
- Illuminated panel for automotive applications29 Sep 2026US 12,748,251 B2Hella Saturnus Slovenija d.o.o.
- Wide-area illumination panels employing flexible printed circuits and side-emitting LEDs22 Sep 2026US 12,742,536 B2S.V.V. Technology Innovations, Inc.
- Display device22 Sep 2026US 12,742,922 B2Lite-On Technology Corporation
- Lighting module and refrigerator having dispenser15 Sep 2026US 12,736,738 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Lighting module comprising a plurality of flexible guide sheets3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259361 A1Valeo Vision
- Display system for vehicles27 Aug 2026US 2026/0249693 A1Faurecia Interieur Industrie
- Light guide plate design for asymmetric lighting27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251834 A1Signify Holding B. V.
- Display device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251836 A1Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Illuminable decorative multilayer composite for a vehicle and vehicle20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243407 A1Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Thin panel illuminator460US 5,005,108 ALumitex, Inc. · 1991
- Light emitting diode based products315US 7,161,313 B2Color Kinetics Incorporated · 2007
- Light guide plate and virtual image display apparatus having the same309US 8,662,686 B2Seiko Epson Corporation · 2014
- Method of manufacturing an optical composite260US 7,991,257 B1Fusion Optix, Inc. · 2011
- Edge-lit transflective non-emissive display with angled interface means on both sides of light conducting panel242US 5,339,179 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1994