G02F 1/133555
Transflectors
Official title: {Transflectors}
G02F1/133555 (Transflectors) appears on 1,973 US grants and 2,464 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
- 1,973
- Published applications
- 2,464
- Assignees
- 346
- Inventors
- 2,861
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 2 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 2 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 11 | 22 |
| 2002 | 19 | 69 |
| 2003 | 36 | 134 |
| 2004 | 86 | 186 |
| 2005 | 103 | 241 |
| 2006 | 120 | 240 |
| 2007 | 136 | 267 |
| 2008 | 117 | 222 |
| 2009 | 186 | 173 |
| 2010 | 199 | 146 |
| 2011 | 190 | 91 |
| 2012 | 127 | 70 |
| 2013 | 87 | 49 |
| 2014 | 50 | 55 |
| 2015 | 47 | 51 |
| 2016 | 57 | 68 |
| 2017 | 53 | 67 |
| 2018 | 55 | 60 |
| 2019 | 58 | 59 |
| 2020 | 59 | 38 |
| 2021 | 39 | 39 |
| 2022 | 29 | 28 |
| 2023 | 21 | 23 |
| 2024 | 28 | 28 |
| 2025 | 29 | 24 |
| 2026 | 10 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Display device and head mounted display16 Jun 2026US 12,656,612 B2Sharp Display Technology Corporation
- Selective driving of a compound backlight with edge lighting2 Jun 2026US 12,645,113 B2Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Liquid crystal display device26 May 2026US 12,638,714 B2Sharp Display Technology Corporation
- Display device26 May 2026US 12,638,717 B2Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.
- Electrically controlled optical screen21 Apr 2026US 12,607,894 B2Coretronic Corporation
- Electronic device and operation method thereof10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267147 A1Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd.
- Compound backlight with a reflective layer3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259450 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Display device27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251933 A1Hannstar Display Corp.
- Virtual image display apparatus and optical unit27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251934 A1Seiko Epson Corporation
- Narrowband display device with narrowband reflective optical combiner16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202699 A1Distance Technologies Oy
Most cited
By later US patents
- Liquid crystal display in which at least one pixel includes both a transmissive region and a reflective region320US 6,195,140 B1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001
- Liquid crystal display viewable under all lighting conditions234US 6,909,486 B22005
- LCD with plurality of pixels having reflective and transmissive regions216US 6,295,109 B1Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 2001
- Liquid crystal display device205US 5,920,367 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1999
- Transflector181US 4,040,727 ARockwell International Corporation · 1977