G02B 6/00
Light guides
Official title: Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
G02B6/00 (Light guides) appears on 85,268 US grants and 82,873 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 85,268
- Published applications
- 82,873
- Assignees
- 12,938
- Inventors
- 95,954
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1978 | 234 | 0 |
| 1979 | 195 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 246 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 1779 | 626 |
| 2002 | 2134 | 2972 |
| 2003 | 2555 | 3603 |
| 2004 | 2738 | 3421 |
| 2005 | 2517 | 3038 |
| 2006 | 2550 | 2841 |
| 2007 | 2371 | 2520 |
| 2008 | 2140 | 2602 |
| 2009 | 1893 | 2699 |
| 2010 | 2000 | 2749 |
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| 2014 | 2707 | 3405 |
| 2015 | 3027 | 3629 |
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| 2017 | 3504 | 3835 |
| 2018 | 3333 | 3915 |
| 2019 | 4168 | 4074 |
| 2020 | 3986 | 4088 |
| 2021 | 3377 | 3951 |
| 2022 | 3334 | 3668 |
| 2023 | 2973 | 3610 |
| 2024 | 2961 | 3566 |
| 2025 | 2699 | 3231 |
| 2026 | 1782 | 2383 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G02B 6/24Coupling light guides44,982
- G02B 6/0001Light guides: specially adapted for lighting devices or systems21,287
- G02B 6/10Light guides: of the optical waveguide type16,729
- G02B 6/44Mechanical structures for providing tensile strength and external protection for fibres10,861
- G02B 6/02Optical fibres with cladding with or without a coating8,116
- G02B 6/46Processes or apparatus adapted for installing or repairing optical fibres or optical2,001
- G02B 6/04Formed by bundles of fibres1,958
- G02B 2006/0098Light guides: for scanningIndexing code159
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