C03B 37/15
With heat application
Official title: with heat application, e.g. for making optical fibres (fusion-splicing of light guides G02B6/255; treatment of light guides to shape optical elements {G02B6/2835, G02B6/2856})
C03B37/15 (With heat application) appears on 210 US grants and 114 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C03B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical fiber, laser generator, laser processing apparatus, and method of manufacturing optical fiber14 Jul 2026US 12,678,887 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- System for fabricating an optical element23 Jun 2026US 12,662,413 B2Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
- Light-based optical fiber heaters using hollow light pipes12 May 2026US 12,623,950 B2Corning Incorporated
- Method of manufacturing an optical fiber and production system therefor12 May 2026US 12,623,951 B2Corning Incorporated
- Self-learning fiber processing system and method24 Feb 2026US 12,559,408 B23SAE Technologies, Inc.
- Method of Preparation of a Multicore Fiber Preform18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167550 A1Heraeus Quartz North America LLC
- Glass wool fiber-stretching burner18 Jun 2026US 2026/0167556 A1
- Method of nanofiber fabrication with a deuterium or tritium flame25 Sep 2025US 2025/0296868 A1Nanofiber Quantum Technologies, Inc.
- Hollow-core photonic crystal fiber based optical component for broadband radiation generation28 Aug 2025US 2025/0271611 A1ASML Netherlands B. V.
- Fiber optic image inverter with ultra-short twister, fabrication method therefor, application thereof, and related composition29 May 2025US 2025/0172749 A1China Building Materials Academy Co., Ltd.
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- Method to reduce light propagation losses in optical glasses and optical waveguide fabricated by same228US 5,235,662 AEastman Kodak Company · 1993
- Glass structures for information displays101US 5,984,747 ACorning Incorporated · 1999
- High R super insulation panel65US 5,330,816 AOwens Corning Fiberglas Technology, Inc. · 1994
- High-contrast fiber optic diffusion faceplate with radiused fibers53US 4,904,049 AHughes Aircraft Company · 1990
- Hollow core photonic bandgap optical fiber51US 6,829,421 B2Micron Technology, Inc. · 2004