G03B 17/245
Optical means
Official title: {Optical means}
G03B17/245 (Optical means) appears on 178 US grants and 27 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03B- Granted patents
- 178
- Published applications
- 27
- Assignees
- 45
- Inventors
- 214
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Imaging apparatus, control method, and program22 Sep 2026US 12,743,006 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Integrated illumination-aimer imaging apparatuses11 Oct 2022US 11,467,478 B2Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Integrated illumination-aimer imaging apparatuses18 May 2021US 11,009,786 B1Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Camera module5 Jan 2010US 7,643,749 B2Young Optics Inc.
- Method and apparatus for exposing a latent watermark on film16 Aug 2005US 6,930,759 B2Eastman Kodak Company
- Imaging apparatus, control method, and program14 Nov 2024US 2024/0377717 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- Integrated illumination-aimer imaging apparatuses11 Apr 2024US 2024/0118599 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Integrated illumination-aimer imaging apparatuses5 Jan 2023US 2023/0004077 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Integrated illumination-aimer imaging apparatuses12 Aug 2021US 2021/0247680 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Integrated illumination-aimer imaging apparatuses20 May 2021US 2021/0149289 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Dual path photographic camera for use in motor vehicles268US 4,093,364 A1978
- Data recording apparatus for still camera176US 4,983,996 ACasio Computer Co., Ltd. · 1991
- Photographic and video image system129US 5,752,114 ASony Corporation · 1998
- Camera with dual mode exposure controlled data imprinting128US 6,044,231 ANikon Corporation · 2000
- Encodement-on-film recording apparatus utilizes flash components in a camera111US 5,619,737 AEastman Kodak Company · 1997