G06K 7/10831
Arrangement of optical elements
Official title: {Arrangement of optical elements, e.g. lenses, mirrors, prisms (optical elements per se G02B)}
G06K7/10831 (Arrangement of optical elements) appears on 672 US grants and 620 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
- 672
- Published applications
- 620
- Assignees
- 193
- Inventors
- 791
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 34 | 39 |
| 2025 | 39 | 24 |
| 2026 | 9 | 8 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Multi-functional optical illuminators26 May 2026US 12,639,540 B2Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Test sample reading device and test sample reading method12 May 2026US 12,626,080 B2Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
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- Optical assembly, optical lens, and imaging reader26 Mar 2026US 2026/0087286 A1Hand Held Products, Inc.
- Code reader and code reading method26 Feb 2026US 2026/0057200 A1Keyence Corporation
- Installation support device and installation support method for stationary code reader26 Feb 2026US 2026/0057202 A1Keyence Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hand-supportable digital image capture and processing system supporting a multi-tier modular software architecture554US 8,366,005 B2Metrologic Instruments, Inc. · 2013
- Decodable indicia reading terminal with optical filter547US 8,636,215 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2014
- Indicia reading terminal including focus element with expanded range of focus distances543US 8,596,543 B2Hand Held Products, Inc. · 2013
- Indicia reading terminal including optical filter543US 8,640,958 B2Honeywell International Inc. · 2014
- Method of and system for displaying product related information at POS-based retail checkout systems537US 8,474,712 B2Metrologic Instruments, Inc. · 2013