G02B 6/3526
The optical element being a lens
Official title: {the optical element being a lens}
G02B6/3526 (The optical element being a lens) appears on 84 US grants and 74 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 84
- Published applications
- 74
- Assignees
- 67
- Inventors
- 163
- Latest grant
- 18 Nov 2025
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| 2002 | 3 | 11 |
| 2003 | 7 | 15 |
| 2004 | 14 | 9 |
| 2005 | 7 | 5 |
| 2006 | 5 | 1 |
| 2007 | 3 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 |
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| 2018 | 2 | 4 |
| 2019 | 3 | 3 |
| 2020 | 4 | 3 |
| 2021 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 4 | 5 |
| 2024 | 4 | 3 |
| 2025 | 4 | 2 |
| 2026 | 0 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Large scale steerable coherent optical switched arrays18 Nov 2025US 12,474,528 B2Analog Photonics LLC
- Optical waveguide element and optical axis adjustment method14 Oct 2025US 12,442,986 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Directing light into an optical fiber26 Aug 2025US 12,399,357 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Actuatable optical device, method of fabricating the device, and use of a magnetic substance27 May 2025US 12,311,600 B2Baden-Wuerttemberg Stiftung gGmbH
- Broadband optical coupling using dispersive elements15 Oct 2024US 12,117,650 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Optical switch25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177751 A1santec Holdings Corporation
- Directing light into an optical fiber13 Nov 2025US 2025/0347904 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Optical Switch11 Sep 2025US 2025/0284066 A1Huber+Suhner Polatis Limited
- Wavelength selective switch17 Oct 2024US 2024/0345327 A1O-Net Communications (USA) Inc.
- Large scale steerable coherent optical switched arrays3 Oct 2024US 2024/0329324 A1Analog Photonics LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Catheter for laser angiosurgery389US 5,693,043 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1997
- Integrated optical micro-electromechanical systems and methods of fabricating and operating the same101US 6,636,653 B2Teravicta Technologies, Inc. · 2003
- Vertical displacement device95US 6,940,630 B2University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. · 2005
- In-line, two-pass, fiber optic rotary joint94US 5,588,077 AFocal Technologies Incorporated · 1996
- Fiber-optic matrix switch using phased array acousto-optic device60US 6,922,498 B2MVM Electronics · 2005