G02B 6/12007
Forming wavelength selective elements
Official title: {forming wavelength selective elements, e.g. multiplexer, demultiplexer}
G02B6/12007 (Forming wavelength selective elements) appears on 3,440 US grants and 3,354 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 69 | 81 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Technologies for optical demultiplexing with backwards compatibility6 Oct 2026US 12,754,364 B2Intel Corporation
- Optical waveguide production method and optical waveguide6 Oct 2026US 12,754,365 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Photonic structures with one or more notched side edges6 Oct 2026US 12,754,366 B2GLOBALFOUNDRIES U. S. Inc.
- Optical component22 Sep 2026US 12,742,929 B2Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Optical phased array device and method of manufacture22 Sep 2026US 12,742,930 B2The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Semiconductor arrangement and method of making1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299196 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Semiconductor structure1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299197 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Photonic communication platform24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287815 A1Lightmatter, Inc.
- Integrated optical device and method of forming the same24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287819 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Multi-chip electro-photonic networks and photonic memory fabrics for interconnecting multiple circuit packages24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288336 A1Celestial AI Inc.
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By later US patents
- Photonic mems and structures872US 6,650,455 B2Iridigm Display Corporation · 2003
- Photonic MEMS and structures616US 7,123,216 B1Idc, LLC · 2006
- Switchable optical components377US 6,567,573 B1DigiLens Inc. · 2003
- Optical switch, multiplexer, and demultiplexer313US 5,136,671 AAT&T Bell Laboratories · 1992
- Two-dimensional optoelectronic tune-switch268US 5,671,304 AUniversite Laval · 1997