G02B 2006/12147
Coupler
Official title: {Coupler}
G02B2006/12147 (Coupler) appears on 931 US grants and 1,025 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 931
- Published applications
- 1,025
- Assignees
- 404
- Inventors
- 2,018
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1987 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1995 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 12 | 5 |
| 2002 | 17 | 19 |
| 2003 | 19 | 34 |
| 2004 | 24 | 47 |
| 2005 | 23 | 32 |
| 2006 | 39 | 25 |
| 2007 | 32 | 18 |
| 2008 | 19 | 12 |
| 2009 | 9 | 6 |
| 2010 | 12 | 13 |
| 2011 | 6 | 8 |
| 2012 | 6 | 10 |
| 2013 | 6 | 15 |
| 2014 | 14 | 17 |
| 2015 | 21 | 48 |
| 2016 | 43 | 44 |
| 2017 | 57 | 62 |
| 2018 | 59 | 61 |
| 2019 | 67 | 86 |
| 2020 | 70 | 55 |
| 2021 | 57 | 56 |
| 2022 | 51 | 69 |
| 2023 | 67 | 88 |
| 2024 | 59 | 80 |
| 2025 | 53 | 56 |
| 2026 | 30 | 59 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Edge coupler and method of forming the same6 Oct 2026US 12,754,374 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Wafer level optical routing29 Sep 2026US 12,748,260 B1Volantis Semiconductor, Inc.
- Optical coupler with different waveguide materials22 Sep 2026US 12,742,932 B2Intel Corporation
- Photonic fanout15 Sep 2026US 12,736,746 B2Ayar Labs, Inc.
- Low loss splitter-combiner waveguide structures in photonic circuits8 Sep 2026US 12,730,259 B2Intel Corporation
- Integrated photonic 2x3 coupler1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299208 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Photonic integrated circuits for implementing non-abelian gauge fields24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287813 A1Seoul National University R&Db Foundation
- Semiconductor package structure and method of fabricating the same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287818 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Star coupler device3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259377 A1BE Epitaxy Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd.
- Polarization-diverse integrated photonic switch with multi-layer waveguides20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243951 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nanocomposite materials with engineered properties395US 6,710,366 B1UltraDots, Inc. · 2004
- Switchable optical components377US 6,567,573 B1DigiLens Inc. · 2003
- Method and apparatus for providing power to waveguide systems232US 10,371,889 B1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P. · 2019
- Method and system of heterogeneous substrate bonding for photonic integration168US 8,630,326 B2Skorpios Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Functional patterning material for imprint lithography processes160US 6,936,194 B2Molecular Imprints, Inc. · 2005