G02B 6/0288
Multimode fibre
Official title: {Multimode fibre, e.g. graded index core for compensating modal dispersion}
G02B6/0288 (Multimode fibre) appears on 489 US grants and 507 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 489
- Published applications
- 507
- Assignees
- 199
- Inventors
- 837
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Multi-core optical fiber15 Sep 2026US 12,736,742 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Fiber connecting body, optical communication system, optical device, and method for manufacturing fiber connecting body11 Aug 2026US 12,704,670 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Small diameter low attenuation optical fiber26 May 2026US RE50,899 E1Corning Incorporated
- Method of selecting optimized multimode optical fibers21 Apr 2026US 12,607,538 B2Corning Incorporated
- Integrated fiber for optical shape sensing and spectral tissue sensing24 Feb 2026US 12,560,423 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Special fiber bundle, optical receiving system based on special fiber bundle, and lidar based on optical receiving system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251842 A1Guilin University of Technology
- Tunable Metasurface Optical Fibers for Advanced Light Manipulation13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235803 A1
- Multi-core optical fiber25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177738 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- End-capped optical fiber, fiber array, light source device, and wavelength beam combining device2 Apr 2026US 2026/0093068 A1Nichia Corporation
- Optical terminals26 Mar 2026US 2026/0086287 A1Relative Dynamics Incorporated
Most cited
By later US patents
- Large numerical aperture bend resistant multimode optical fiber263US 7,903,918 B1Corning Incorporated · 2011
- Fiber for optical transmission259US 4,715,695 ASumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. · 1987
- Glass large-core optical fibers241US 8,159,742 B2Imra America, Inc. · 2012
- Broad-bandwidth multimode optical fiber having reduced bending losses238US 8,565,568 B2Draka Comteq B.V. · 2013
- Multimode optical fiber with low bending losses and reduced cladding effect233US 8,406,593 B2Draka Comteq B.V. · 2013