G02B 7/004
Manual alignment
Official title: {Manual alignment, e.g. micromanipulators}
G02B7/004 (Manual alignment) appears on 308 US grants and 264 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 264
- Assignees
- 228
- Inventors
- 649
- Latest grant
- 2 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Field adjustable optics lens2 Jun 2026US 12,642,432 B2Phoenix-Micron, Inc.
- Light detection and ranging system having a mounting connection and method of forming the same2 Jun 2026US 12,644,992 B2Intel Corporation
- Surface mount type optical module and attachment/detachment apparatus and method thereof3 Mar 2026US 12,566,291 B2Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Adjustment device for adjusting optical components of an optical instrument and device arrangement3 Mar 2026US 12,566,311 B2KARL STORZ GmbH&Co.KG
- Optical platform with translation and rotation13 Jan 2026US 12,525,761 B2The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
- Optical mount with spring retention mechanism9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194729 A1Thorlabs, Inc.
- Multi-depth carrier card apparatus and method for installation and removal of lens protectors14 May 2026US 2026/0133472 A1Case-Mate, Inc.
- Compact optical mount optimized for stability in physically and thermally dynamic applications22 Jan 2026US 2026/0023237 A1Dimer Instruments, Inc.
- Camera module having image sensor located between first and second circuit boards15 Jan 2026US 2026/0019696 A1LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Hybrid reflective/refractive head mounted display1 Jan 2026US 2026/0003189 A1Optique Debt Investment, LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Precision tip-tilt-piston actuator that provides exact constraint72US 5,986,827 AThe Regents of the University of California · 1999
- Optics X-Y positioner60US 5,029,791 ACandela Laser Corporation · 1991
- Variable attenuator for laser radiation59US 4,327,966 ABell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated · 1982
- Mechanism for translating a night vision goggle59US 7,715,125 B2ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. · 2010
- Optical mounting apparatus54US 5,140,470 ANew Focus, Inc. · 1992