H10F 77/334
For shielding light
Official title: {for shielding light, e.g. light blocking layers or cold shields for infrared detectors}
H10F77/334 (For shielding light) appears on 615 US grants and 606 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 615
- Published applications
- 606
- Assignees
- 304
- Inventors
- 1,465
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 27 | 44 |
| 2025 | 23 | 14 |
| 2026 | 15 | 21 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Focal plane array29 Sep 2026US 12,751,111 B2LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
- Infrared detector with photonic crystal over absorption layer and preparation method therefor15 Sep 2026US 12,740,183 B2Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, CAS.
- Optical sensing apparatus8 Sep 2026US 12,733,289 B2Artilux, Inc.
- Bendable materials for electromagnetic interference shielding and detection of infrared and visible radiation25 Aug 2026US 12,720,905 B2UNM Rainforest Innovations
- Structure of ultraviolet light sensing-enhanced photodiode25 Aug 2026US 12,720,907 B2Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor Corporation
- Filtering photodetector for use in optical encoders1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298672 A1Novanta Corporation
- Optoelectronic device and method for generating a sequence of random numbers24 Sep 2026US 2026/0293360 A1ams-OSRAM AG
- Bendable Materials for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding and Detection of Infrared and Visible Radiation17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282597 A1UNM Rainforest Innovations
- Horizontal photodiode and manufacturing method thereof10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271425 A1Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor Corporation
- Flip chip photodiode and manufacturing method thereof10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271428 A1Taiwan-Asia Semiconductor Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Structure of semiconductor device with improved reliability229US 6,635,941 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2003
- Solid image pickup device having microlenses162US 5,239,412 ASharp Kabushiki Kaisha · 1993
- CCD solid state imager152US 5,306,926 ASony Corporation · 1994
- Lens array for photodiode device with an aperture having a lens region and a non-lens region141US 5,324,930 AEastman Kodak Company · 1994
- Integrated circuit device116US 6,646,289 B1Shellcase Ltd. · 2003