G03B 17/565
Optical accessories
Official title: {Optical accessories, e.g. converters for close-up photography, tele-convertors, wide-angle convertors}
G03B17/565 (Optical accessories) appears on 672 US grants and 886 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03B- Granted patents
- 672
- Published applications
- 886
- Assignees
- 282
- Inventors
- 1,125
- 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
- Optical element driving mechanism6 Oct 2026US 12,754,460 B2Actutek Corporation
- Action camera case6 Oct 2026US 12,754,461 B2
- Intraoral scanner29 Sep 2026US 12,745,910 B2Luminx Il Ltd
- Camera and switch22 Sep 2026US 12,743,010 B2FUJIFILM Corporation
- Ergonomic camera handle15 Sep 2026US 12,736,858 B1United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
- Exchangeable lens and camera body8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313228 A1Nikon Corporation
- Scope mount17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277079 A1Magview, LLC
- Lens adapter device, mobile phone protective case, and high-definition mobile phone photography system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277083 A1Shenzhen Leqi Innovation Co., Ltd.
- Accessory mount and accessory apparatus3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259483 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Camera adapter13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235861 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical redirection adapter141US 9,304,376 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2016
- Selectively attachable and removable lenses for communication devices114US 8,279,544 B1Premier Systems USA, Inc. · 2012
- Auxiliary lens for camera and the like84US 6,889,006 B2Toda Seiko Co., Ltd. · 2005
- Camera adaption for self photography77US 5,537,175 ASony Corporation · 1996
- Panoramic mirror and system for producing enhanced panoramic images72US 6,856,472 B2EyeSee360, Inc. · 2005