G02B 2006/12166
Manufacturing methods
Official title: {Manufacturing methods}
G02B2006/12166 (Manufacturing methods) appears on 1,472 US grants and 1,420 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,472
- Published applications
- 1,420
- Assignees
- 625
- Inventors
- 3,104
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 63 | 79 |
| 2025 | 71 | 63 |
| 2026 | 31 | 59 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G02B 2006/12176EtchingIndexing code613
- G02B 2006/12195TaperingIndexing code348
- G02B 2006/12173MaskingIndexing code260
- G02B 2006/12169AnnealingIndexing code153
- G02B 2006/12178Epitaxial growthIndexing code104
- G02B 2006/1219PolymerisationIndexing code78
- G02B 2006/12197GrindingIndexing code47
- G02B 2006/12183Ion-exchangeIndexing code45
Recent patents
- Optical waveguide production method and optical waveguide6 Oct 2026US 12,754,365 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Optical integrated device and manufacturing method of the same22 Sep 2026US 12,742,235 B2Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- Methods and apparatus for optical coupler18 Aug 2026US 12,710,589 B2Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc.
- Optical interposer structure and method11 Aug 2026US 12,704,675 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Beam intensity profile tailoring with a composite, tapered optical fibre11 Aug 2026US 12,706,431 B2The University of Sydney
- Method of fabricating molds for forming eyepieces with integrated spacers8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307347 A1Magic Leap, Inc.
- Distributed bragg grating with ultralow index perturbation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309915 A1University of Rochester
- Silicon nitride waveguide or photonic integrated circuit fabrication method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309920 A1Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
- Semiconductor device with waveguide structure and method for manufacturing the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299195 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Photonic substrate preparation method and photonic waveguide preparation or fabrication method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299200 A1Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
Most cited
By later US patents
- Nanocomposite materials with engineered properties395US 6,710,366 B1UltraDots, Inc. · 2004
- Integrated optical wavelength discrimination devices and methods for fabricating same268US 5,784,507 A1998
- Method to reduce light propagation losses in optical glasses and optical waveguide fabricated by same228US 5,235,662 AEastman Kodak Company · 1993
- Wavelength-selective optical add/drop switch213US 5,915,051 AMassascusetts Institute of Technology · 1999
- Optical coupling structures and the fabrication processes197US 6,684,007 B2Fujitsu Limited · 2004