G02B 9/18
Only one component having a compound lens
Official title: only one component having a compound lens (G02B9/30 takes precedence)
G02B9/18 (Only one component having a compound lens) appears on 28 US grants and 17 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 28
- Published applications
- 17
- Assignees
- 20
- Inventors
- 45
- Latest grant
- 21 Jul 2026
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| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical detector21 Jul 2026US 12,687,617 B2Denso Corporation
- Infinity-corrected microscope objective9 Dec 2025US 12,493,165 B2Evident Corporation
- Infinity-corrected microscope objective28 Oct 2025US 12,455,432 B2Evident Corporation
- Imaging lens and imaging apparatus15 Nov 2022US 11,500,184 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Imaging optical system, imaging apparatus and electronic device25 Oct 2022US 11,480,757 B2Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
- Image pickup apparatus, optical system, and detection system16 Jan 2025US 2025/0020896 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Objective15 Jun 2023US 2023/0185055 A1Evident Corporation
- Optical detector17 Nov 2022US 2022/0365178 A1Denso Corporation
- Imaging optical system, imaging apparatus and electronic device8 Apr 2021US 2021/0103124 A1Largan Precision Co., Ltd.
- Imaging lens and imaging apparatus18 Feb 2021US 2021/0048652 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical system and image pickup apparatus including the same8US 10,215,972 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2019
- Behind-stop type lens system for photographic cameras6US 4,192,579 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1980
- Behind stop lens6US 4,676,607 ANippon Kogaku K. K. · 1987
- Short focal length long back focus objective5US 3,944,338 ABell & Howell Company · 1976
- Tesser type objective lens system having a rear aperture stop4US 4,281,908 AMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha · 1981