G02B 6/12016
Characterised by the input or output waveguides
Official title: {characterised by the input or output waveguides, e.g. tapered waveguide ends, coupled together pairs of output waveguides}
G02B6/12016 (Characterised by the input or output waveguides) appears on 325 US grants and 295 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 325
- Published applications
- 295
- Assignees
- 159
- Inventors
- 611
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2004 | 26 | 18 |
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| 2006 | 20 | 13 |
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| 2017 | 5 | 9 |
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| 2019 | 10 | 15 |
| 2020 | 12 | 14 |
| 2021 | 17 | 22 |
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| 2023 | 25 | 24 |
| 2024 | 25 | 14 |
| 2025 | 10 | 15 |
| 2026 | 7 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Technologies for optical demultiplexing with backwards compatibility6 Oct 2026US 12,754,364 B2Intel Corporation
- Optical coupler with different waveguide materials22 Sep 2026US 12,742,932 B2Intel Corporation
- Photonic integrated circuit temporal and frequency dispersion squint correction for optical phased array18 Aug 2026US 12,710,586 B2Raytheon Company
- Arrayed waveguide grating device and arrayed waveguide grating system using the same26 May 2026US 12,638,636 B2National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology
- Photodetector with split inputs28 Apr 2026US 12,615,094 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Phase control waveguide structure based on anisotropic material and wavelength division multiplexer structure thereof9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194709 A1Jiaxing Research Institute, Zhejiang University
- Bypass wavguide configured to facilitate inter-level optical coupling in optical module5 Mar 2026US 2026/0063838 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Planar Lightwave Circuit Lattice Filter and Optical Transmitter Module Using Thereof12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043965 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Modified high-cis polybutadiene polymer, related methods and rubber compositions25 Dec 2025US 2025/0389555 A1Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
- Hybrid integrated narrow-linewidth optical frequency comb11 Dec 2025US 2025/0377498 A1Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
Most cited
By later US patents
- Scattering device on an arrayed waveguide grating224US 8,958,665 B2Infinera Corporation · 2015
- Optical multiplexer/demultiplexer170US 5,002,350 AAT&T Bell Laboratories · 1991
- Arrayed-wave guide grating multi/demultiplexer with loop-back optical paths100US 5,414,548 ANippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation · 1995
- Integrated optical waveguide circuit and optical branch line test system using the same68US 5,546,483 ANippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation · 1996
- Frequency routing device having a wide and substantially flat passband63US 5,412,744 AAT&T Corp. · 1995