G02F 1/133753
With different alignment orientations or pretilt angles on a same surface
Official title: {with different alignment orientations or pretilt angles on a same surface, e.g. for grey scale or improved viewing angle}
G02F1/133753 (With different alignment orientations or pretilt angles on a same surface) appears on 1,467 US grants and 1,456 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
- 1,467
- Published applications
- 1,456
- Assignees
- 294
- Inventors
- 2,301
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
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| 2023 | 38 | 35 |
| 2024 | 42 | 51 |
| 2025 | 32 | 26 |
| 2026 | 14 | 6 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Wide field-of-view polarization switches and methods of fabricating liquid crystal optical elements with pretilt28 Jul 2026US 12,693,564 B2Magic Leap, Inc.
- Intelligent reflecting surface7 Jul 2026US 12,676,421 B2Japan Display Inc.
- Liquid crystal light control device23 Jun 2026US 12,663,675 B2Japan Display Inc.
- Liquid crystal display device16 Jun 2026US 12,658,150 B2Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd.
- Marks for angular optical filters9 Jun 2026US 12,650,627 B2RealD Spark, LLC
- Marks for angular optical filters1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299360 A1RealD Spark, LLC
- Wide field-of-view polarization switches and methods of fabricating liquid crystal optical elements with pretilt6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227661 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Liquid crystal light control device14 May 2026US 2026/0133455 A1Japan Display Inc.
- Method and system for patterning a liquid crystal layer30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118821 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Display panel and display device23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110938 A1Tcl China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Vertically aligned (VA) liquid crystal display device268US 6,724,452 B1Fujitsu Display Technologies Corporation · 2004
- Active matrix liquid crystal display having electric fields parallel to substrates265US 5,745,207 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1998
- Vertically-alligned (VA) liquid crystal display device254US 6,661,488 B1Fujitsu Limited · 2003
- Liquid crystal display device234US 7,859,510 B2Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd. · 2010
- Optical component221US 5,602,661 AHoffmann-La Roche Inc. · 1997