H10F 77/484
Refractive light-concentrating means
Official title: {Refractive light-concentrating means, e.g. lenses}
H10F77/484 (Refractive light-concentrating means) appears on 890 US grants and 1,437 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 890
- Published applications
- 1,437
- Assignees
- 613
- Inventors
- 2,437
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2007 | 8 | 33 |
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| 2024 | 34 | 38 |
| 2025 | 33 | 30 |
| 2026 | 21 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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