G02F 1/133371
Cells with varying thickness of the liquid crystal layer
Official title: {Cells with varying thickness of the liquid crystal layer}
G02F1/133371 (Cells with varying thickness of the liquid crystal layer) appears on 800 US grants and 899 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Assignees
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- Latest grant
- 2 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Stabilized electro-active contact lens298US 6,851,805 B2E-Vision, LLC · 2005
- Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same265US 5,956,112 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1999
- Polymer dispersed liquid crystal panel with diffraction grating232US 5,299,289 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1994
- Stabilized electro-active contact lens232US 7,018,040 B2E-Vision, LLC · 2006
- LCD with plurality of pixels having reflective and transmissive regions216US 6,295,109 B1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001