H01S 5/106
Varying thickness along the optical axis
Official title: {varying thickness along the optical axis}
H01S5/106 (Varying thickness along the optical axis) appears on 114 US grants and 70 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 114
- Published applications
- 70
- Assignees
- 61
- Inventors
- 242
- Latest grant
- 16 Jun 2026
Filings by year
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| 2001 | 4 | 3 |
| 2002 | 6 | 9 |
| 2003 | 7 | 12 |
| 2004 | 5 | 2 |
| 2005 | 7 | 4 |
| 2006 | 4 | 2 |
| 2007 | 1 | 2 |
| 2008 | 2 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 2 | 4 |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 3 | 3 |
| 2016 | 3 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026 | 1 | 0 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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