A61B 2090/306
Using optical fibres
Official title: {using optical fibres}
A61B2090/306 (Using optical fibres) appears on 1,851 US grants and 2,258 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in A61B- Granted patents
- 1,851
- Published applications
- 2,258
- Assignees
- 670
- Inventors
- 3,109
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 26 | 35 |
| 2004 | 23 | 46 |
| 2005 | 19 | 51 |
| 2006 | 16 | 41 |
| 2007 | 19 | 52 |
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| 2009 | 24 | 58 |
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| 2015 | 65 | 91 |
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| 2019 | 99 | 156 |
| 2020 | 141 | 174 |
| 2021 | 119 | 161 |
| 2022 | 102 | 153 |
| 2023 | 124 | 150 |
| 2024 | 138 | 139 |
| 2025 | 125 | 109 |
| 2026 | 84 | 62 |
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