G02B 6/3516
The reflective optical element moving along the beam path
Official title: {the reflective optical element moving along the beam path, e.g. controllable diffractive effects using multiple micromirrors within the beam}
G02B6/3516 (The reflective optical element moving along the beam path) appears on 135 US grants and 100 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 100
- Assignees
- 77
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2007 | 8 | 6 |
| 2008 | 6 | 1 |
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| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
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