G02B 6/02042
Multicore optical fibres
Official title: {Multicore optical fibres}
G02B6/02042 (Multicore optical fibres) appears on 993 US grants and 1,311 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 993
- Published applications
- 1,311
- Assignees
- 370
- Inventors
- 1,680
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 62 | 98 |
| 2025 | 74 | 92 |
| 2026 | 50 | 59 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Crosstalk measuring method, and crosstalk measuring device6 Oct 2026US 12,754,100 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Dynamic concentrator system and method therefor6 Oct 2026US 12,754,413 B2PLX, Inc.
- Illumination sources for multicore fiber endoscopes29 Sep 2026US 12,745,900 B2Zsquare Ltd.
- Optical fiber preform production method, optical fiber preform, and optical fiber production method29 Sep 2026US 12,747,183 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Multi-core optical fiber15 Sep 2026US 12,736,742 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Multicore optical fiber8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309908 A1Corning Incorporated
- Multicore fiber8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309909 A1Lightera Japan Co., Ltd.
- Multicore fiber connection component1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299188 A1Photonic Science Technology Inc.
- Multicore optical fiber for high density cable1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299189 A1
- Multi-Core Optical Cable Adapter1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299217 A1Go!Foton Holdings, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Virtual and augmented reality systems and methods701US 9,791,700 B2Magic Leap, Inc. · 2017
- Multicore optical fibre354US 6,301,420 B1The Secretary of State for Defence in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 2001
- Fiber optic position and/or shape sensing based on rayleigh scatter344US 7,772,541 B2Luna Innnovations Incorporated · 2010
- Multiple core fiber laser and optical amplifier322US 5,566,196 ASDL, Inc. · 1996
- Imaging fiber optic array sensors, apparatus, and methods for concurrently detecting multiple analytes of interest in a fluid sample301US 5,244,636 ATrustees of Tufts College · 1993