G06K 7/10732
Light sources
Official title: {Light sources}
G06K7/10732 (Light sources) appears on 1,213 US grants and 1,129 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 1,213
- Published applications
- 1,129
- Assignees
- 236
- Inventors
- 1,162
- 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
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical reader comprising multiple color illumination859US 6,832,725 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2004
- Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones789US 5,726,984 ANorand Corporation · 1998
- Optical scanner for reading and decoding one- and-two-dimensional symbologies at variable depths of field including memory efficient high speed image processing means and high accuracy image analysis means721US 5,756,981 ASymbol Technologies, Inc. · 1998
- Hand-supportable digital imaging-based bar code symbol reader supporting narrow-area and wide-area modes of illumination and image capture686US 7,128,266 B2Metrologic Instruments, Inc. · 2006
- Hand-held data capture system with interchangable modules608US 5,410,141 ANorand Corporation · 1995