G02F 1/292
By controlled diffraction or phased-array beam steering
Official title: {by controlled diffraction or phased-array beam steering (controlled diffraction for optical switching G02F1/31)}
G02F1/292 (By controlled diffraction or phased-array beam steering) appears on 901 US grants and 1,019 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02F- Granted patents
- 901
- Published applications
- 1,019
- Assignees
- 372
- Inventors
- 1,593
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2002 | 12 | 15 |
| 2003 | 10 | 10 |
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| 2005 | 10 | 17 |
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| 2021 | 85 | 92 |
| 2022 | 74 | 69 |
| 2023 | 78 | 86 |
| 2024 | 85 | 67 |
| 2025 | 50 | 40 |
| 2026 | 45 | 33 |
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