A61B 1/0017
Details of single optical fibres
Official title: {Details of single optical fibres, e.g. material or cladding}
A61B1/0017 (Details of single optical fibres) appears on 175 US grants and 224 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 175
- Published applications
- 224
- Assignees
- 124
- Inventors
- 425
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2021 | 10 | 19 |
| 2022 | 22 | 6 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12 |
| 2024 | 13 | 11 |
| 2025 | 11 | 8 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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