G11B 7/1376
Collimator lenses
Official title: Collimator lenses {(collimators per se G02B27/30)}
G11B7/1376 (Collimator lenses) appears on 249 US grants and 271 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 249
- Published applications
- 271
- Assignees
- 87
- Inventors
- 460
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 2 | 0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 |
| 1991 | 2 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 6 | 0 |
| 1998 | 8 | 0 |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 7 |
| 2002 | 21 | 17 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10 |
| 2004 | 13 | 21 |
| 2005 | 5 | 29 |
| 2006 | 10 | 38 |
| 2007 | 18 | 26 |
| 2008 | 15 | 32 |
| 2009 | 16 | 26 |
| 2010 | 31 | 15 |
| 2011 | 24 | 15 |
| 2012 | 15 | 13 |
| 2013 | 18 | 11 |
| 2014 | 7 | 6 |
| 2015 | 3 | 2 |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Reading voxels in an optical storage medium using off-axis lighting28 Jul 2026US 12,694,901 B1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Optical pickup, disk drive device, and optical element driving device4 Jul 2017US 9,697,864 B2Sony Corporation
- Optical medium reproducing apparatus and optical medium reproducing method21 Jun 2016US 9,373,350 B2Sony Corporation
- Objective lens element12 Apr 2016US 9,310,536 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Lens driving device and optical disc apparatus29 Mar 2016US 9,297,979 B2Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
- Optical system for holographic storage and design method for fresnel lens and meta lens thereof16 Feb 2023US 2023/0047873 A1Amethystum Storage Technology Co., Ltd.
- Optical disk, method of manufacturing same, optical information device, and information processing method21 Oct 2021US 2021/0327466 A1Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Optical pickup, disk drive device, and optical element driving device8 Dec 2016US 2016/0358624 A1Sony Corporation
- Optical disc device, control method thereof, program, and information storage medium14 May 2015US 2015/0131423 A1Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
- Objective lens and optical pickup device8 Jan 2015US 2015/0009790 A1Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Switchable optical element85US 7,508,566 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2009
- Optical beamsplitter51US 5,568,315 ADiscovision Associates · 1996
- Optical information record/pickup head assembly41US 4,959,824 AMinolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha · 1990
- Remote fine positioning mechanism40US 5,504,731 AQuantum Corporation · 1996
- Optical head for a plurality of types of information recording media40US 6,834,036 B1Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 2004