G02F 1/13362
Providing polarized light
Official title: {providing polarized light, e.g. by converting a polarisation component into another one}
G02F1/13362 (Providing polarized light) appears on 876 US grants and 862 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
- 876
- Published applications
- 862
- Assignees
- 320
- Inventors
- 1,803
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Backlight with optical film, illumination device therewith, and display screen6 Oct 2026US 12,754,447 B2siOPTICA GmbH
- Polarizer and display15 Sep 2026US 12,736,842 B2Guangzhou Luxvisions Innovation Technology Limited
- Virtual image display device and optical unit25 Aug 2026US 12,717,145 B2Seiko Epson Corporation
- Partial reflector having stack of polymer layers for correcting color shift11 Aug 2026US 12,704,660 B23M Innovative Properties Company
- Optical illumination module for a display system11 Aug 2026US 12,704,715 B2Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
- Polarization beam splitting apparatus, light source apparatus, display apparatus, and illumination apparatus10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267156 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Infrared illumination for a liquid crystal display6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227657 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Diffractive optical waveguide display apparatus18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169287 A1Nanchang Virtual Reality Research Institute Co., Ltd.
- Backlight module and method for manufacturing same, and display device11 Jun 2026US 2026/0161029 A1Beijing Boe Display Technology Co., Ltd.
- Backlighting with an optical film, lighting device, screen, and optical film30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118707 A1siOPTICA GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical film968US 5,882,774 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1999
- Optical panel capable of switching between reflective and transmissive states454US 5,686,979 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1997
- Optics arrangements including light source arrangements for an active matrix liquid crystal image generator365US 5,808,800 ADisplaytech, Inc. · 1998
- Backlighting system using a retroreflecting polarizer322US 5,422,756 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1995
- High efficiency polarized display298US 5,751,388 AHoneywell Inc. · 1998