G02B 6/357
Electrostatic force
Official title: {Electrostatic force (electrostatic forces controlling reflecting elements in general G02B26/0841)}
G02B6/357 (Electrostatic force) appears on 630 US grants and 531 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 630
- Published applications
- 531
- Assignees
- 282
- Inventors
- 1,088
- Latest grant
- 23 Sep 2025
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| 2001 | 28 | 20 |
| 2002 | 56 | 120 |
| 2003 | 87 | 97 |
| 2004 | 98 | 88 |
| 2005 | 79 | 63 |
| 2006 | 66 | 45 |
| 2007 | 38 | 13 |
| 2008 | 25 | 10 |
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| 2023 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Photonic mems and structures872US 6,650,455 B2Iridigm Display Corporation · 2003
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- Medical imaging, diagnosis, and therapy using a scanning single optical fiber system524US 6,975,898 B2University of Washington · 2005
- Digital micromirror shutter device386US 5,226,099 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1993
- Optical interconnection network347US 5,037,173 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1991