Mountings, adjusting means, or light-tight connections, for optical elements

Filing statistics

CPC G02B 7/00 belongs to the parent subclass G02B, which recorded 623,096 patent applications worldwide between 2013 and 2023. Annual filings grew from 43,600 in 2013 to 50,077 in 2023 (+15%), peaking at 66,341 applications in 2018. The most active applicants in class G02 are SAMSUNG DISPLAY (14,409 applications), BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY (14,236 applications) and BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY (11,826 applications).

Source: EPO PATSTAT, worldwide filings

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Child Classifications

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G02B 7/001
G02B 7/002
G02B 7/003
G02B 7/006
G02B 7/007
G02B 7/008
G02B 7/02 for lenses
G02B 7/18 for prisms; for mirrors
G02B 7/20 Light-tight connections for movable optical elements
G02B 7/28 Systems for automatic generation of focusing signals

Top Applicants

Top 10 applicants by patent filingsfor class G02, 2013–2023, worldwide · Source: EPO PATSTAT

SAMSUNG DISPLAY KR 14,409
BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY CN 14,236
BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP COMPANY 11,826
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS COMPANY KR 10,141
FUJIFILM JP 8,506
LG DISPLAY COMPANY KR 7,558
NITTO DENKO CORPORATION JP 6,306
OLYMPUS CORPORATION JP 5,336
SONY CORPORATION JP 5,097
CANON JP 4,814