G02B 6/0095
Light guides as housings, housing portions, shelves, doors, tiles, windows, or the
Official title: {Light guides as housings, housing portions, shelves, doors, tiles, windows, or the like}
G02B6/0095 (Light guides as housings, housing portions, shelves, doors, tiles, windows, or the) appears on 424 US grants and 486 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 424
- Published applications
- 486
- Assignees
- 294
- Inventors
- 1,121
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2007 | 4 | 10 |
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| 2010 | 2 | 8 |
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| 2012 | 6 | 13 |
| 2013 | 4 | 19 |
| 2014 | 6 | 29 |
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| 2016 | 19 | 29 |
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| 2018 | 33 | 42 |
| 2019 | 44 | 45 |
| 2020 | 47 | 38 |
| 2021 | 46 | 28 |
| 2022 | 24 | 25 |
| 2023 | 24 | 23 |
| 2024 | 20 | 34 |
| 2025 | 34 | 35 |
| 2026 | 17 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Glass assembly, vehicle window glass and vehicle6 Oct 2026US 12,752,607 B2Saint-Gobain Sekurit France
- Wide-area illumination panels employing flexible printed circuits and side-emitting LEDs22 Sep 2026US 12,742,536 B2S.V.V. Technology Innovations, Inc.
- Illuminable glazing unit15 Sep 2026US 12,736,741 B2Saint-Gobain Sekurit France
- Surface illumination device, space including surface illumination device, and illumination method26 May 2026US 12,638,147 B2Nitto Denko Corporation
- Curved light guide for thin structure illumination26 May 2026US 12,638,155 B1Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Lighting device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251276 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Systems and methods for illuminating a surface27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251282 A1The Boeing Company
- Vehicle roof assembly comprising a pane with a light guide layer6 Aug 2026US 2026/0225519 A1
- Illuminated glazing element with emissivity-reducing coating30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219436 A1Saint-Gobain Sekurit France
- Light ray incidence structure, vehicle window, vehicle window panel, vehicle window panel assembly, and vehicle16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202604 A1Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Luminous vehicle glazing and manufacture thereof200US 9,006,751 B2Saint-Gobain Glass France · 2015
- Cooling system for liquid crystal display119US 9,500,896 B2Manufacturing Resources International, Inc. · 2016
- Illuminated shelf96US 7,434,951 B2Gemtron Corporation · 2008
- Interior lighting fixture95US 6,161,939 ASemperlux AG · 2000
- Low-clearance light emitting diode lighting90US 7,547,112 B2Led Folio Corporation · 2009