G02B 7/00
Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements
G02B7/00 (Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements) appears on 24,522 US grants and 23,434 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 24,522
- Published applications
- 23,434
- Assignees
- 4,348
- Inventors
- 30,422
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2021 | 1212 | 1581 |
| 2022 | 1281 | 1522 |
| 2023 | 1194 | 1259 |
| 2024 | 1183 | 1111 |
| 2025 | 1181 | 1024 |
| 2026 | 669 | 701 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G02B 7/02Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements: for lenses14,519
- G02B 7/28Systems for automatic generation of focusing signals5,037
- G02B 7/18Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements: for prisms3,578
- G02B 7/003Alignment of optical elements1,403
- G02B 7/008Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements: with means for805
- G02B 7/006Filter holders630
- G02B 7/002Mounting on the human body248
- G02B 7/001Counterbalanced structures211
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