G02B 2006/1204
Lithium niobate
Official title: {Lithium niobate (LiNbO3)}
G02B2006/1204 (Lithium niobate) appears on 144 US grants and 189 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 144
- Published applications
- 189
- Assignees
- 101
- Inventors
- 438
- Latest grant
- 19 May 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 4 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 2 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 6 |
| 2003 | 5 | 10 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 |
| 2005 | 3 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 |
| 2007 | 1 | 5 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5 |
| 2009 | 3 | 5 |
| 2010 | 6 | 3 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 4 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2 | 3 |
| 2014 | 5 | 11 |
| 2015 | 6 | 7 |
| 2016 | 7 | 4 |
| 2017 | 5 | 5 |
| 2018 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 | 3 |
| 2020 | 5 | 7 |
| 2021 | 5 | 11 |
| 2022 | 10 | 21 |
| 2023 | 7 | 17 |
| 2024 | 15 | 18 |
| 2025 | 16 | 22 |
| 2026 | 5 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Integration of advanced photonic materials in silicon photonic platform19 May 2026US 12,631,911 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Performance heterogeneous lasers and active components5 May 2026US 12,620,773 B2Nexus Photonics LLC
- Compact optical resonator with enhancement features17 Mar 2026US 12,578,526 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Integration method for modularized silicon-based heterogeneous photoelectric integrated architecture24 Feb 2026US 12,562,547 B2Hubei Jiufengshan Laboratory
- Bidirectional optical module with separated subassemblies3 Feb 2026US 12,541,066 B2Global Technology Inc.
- Distributed bragg grating with ultralow index perturbation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309915 A1University of Rochester
- Optical module including lid24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287834 A1Global Technology Inc.
- Efficient optical modulators27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251927 A1
- Heterogeneous integrated coherent receiver based on wafer-scale indium phosphide-lithium niobate integrated platform23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211180 A1Southwest Jiaotong University
- Spot Size Converter for Adapting the Diameter and/or the Shape of a Mode Field of an Optical Component and Method of Fabricating a Spot Size Converter16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202608 A1Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Interferometer with angled beam entry118US 6,657,730 B22003
- Switched filter for optical applications50US 6,584,244 B22003
- Electro-optic optical modulator devices and method of fabrication29US 9,746,743 B1Partow Technologies, LLC. · 2017
- Tapered light wave guide and wavelength converting element using the same27US 5,142,596 AMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. · 1992
- Optical semiconductor apparatus and optical communication system using the apparatus24US 5,654,814 ACanon Kabushiki Kaisha · 1997