G02B 23/2469
Using optical fibres
Official title: {using optical fibres}
G02B23/2469 (Using optical fibres) appears on 885 US grants and 1,061 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- 293
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2026 | 19 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Method for supplementing a component of a medical instrument25 Aug 2026US 12,714,296 B2KARL STORZ GmbH&Co.KG
- Optical scanning system and method4 Aug 2026US 12,699,261 B2Stevens CAD/CAM, LLC
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- Medical Illumination Device for Medical Instrument,and Method for Supplying a Light Beam to a Medical Instrument20 Aug 2026US 2026/0240425 A1KARL STORZ GmbH&Co.KG
- Enhanced multicore fiber endoscopes6 Aug 2026US 2026/0224101 A1Zsquare Ltd.
- Optic light guide, endoscope, method for producing and using an optic light guide2 Jul 2026US 2026/0182831 A1Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Scope modifications to enhance scene depth inference18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169279 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
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By later US patents
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- Light source device for endoscope using DMD189US 6,464,633 B1Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 2002
- Imaging system and related techniques173US 7,447,408 B2The General Hospital Corporation · 2008