G02B 6/12019
Characterised by the optical interconnection to or from the awg devices
Official title: {characterised by the optical interconnection to or from the AWG devices, e.g. integration or coupling with lasers or photodiodes (coupling integrated waveguide to fibre G02B6/30, to optoelectronic element G02B6/42; monolithic integration of integrated waveguides with other optical elements G02B6/12004)}
G02B6/12019 (Characterised by the optical interconnection to or from the awg devices) appears on 718 US grants and 700 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 700
- Assignees
- 268
- Inventors
- 1,292
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 5 | 0 |
| 1996 | 9 | 0 |
| 1997 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1999 | 12 | 0 |
| 2000 | 12 | 0 |
| 2001 | 22 | 12 |
| 2002 | 28 | 37 |
| 2003 | 37 | 49 |
| 2004 | 30 | 49 |
| 2005 | 29 | 67 |
| 2006 | 74 | 37 |
| 2007 | 41 | 33 |
| 2008 | 33 | 25 |
| 2009 | 29 | 21 |
| 2010 | 20 | 22 |
| 2011 | 7 | 18 |
| 2012 | 20 | 15 |
| 2013 | 16 | 10 |
| 2014 | 13 | 15 |
| 2015 | 16 | 8 |
| 2016 | 24 | 21 |
| 2017 | 21 | 26 |
| 2018 | 20 | 19 |
| 2019 | 20 | 21 |
| 2020 | 20 | 34 |
| 2021 | 29 | 34 |
| 2022 | 28 | 39 |
| 2023 | 27 | 28 |
| 2024 | 23 | 22 |
| 2025 | 19 | 24 |
| 2026 | 18 | 14 |
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 coupler with different waveguide materials22 Sep 2026US 12,742,932 B2Intel Corporation
- Photonic memory fabric for system memory interconnection15 Sep 2026US 12,737,118 B2Sicily Merger Sub II, Inc.
- Semiconductor package, optical device and method of fabricating the same11 Aug 2026US 12,704,676 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Arrayed waveguide multiplexing/demultiplexing device with phase correction30 Jun 2026US 12,669,645 B2Imec Vzw
- Multi-chip electro-photonic networks and photonic memory fabrics for interconnecting multiple circuit packages24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288336 A1Celestial AI Inc.
- Optical processing system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259368 A1Atonarp Inc.
- Optical waveguide structure and control method16 Jul 2026US 2026/0202611 A1Denso Corporation
- Optical phased array chip with contra-directional coupler, optical phased array system and on-chip phase calibration method2 Jul 2026US 2026/0186202 A1Silith Technology Pte. Ltd.
- Method and Structure for High Precision Silicon Nitride Photonics Devices21 May 2026US 2026/0140315 A1Newport Fab, LLC dba Tower Semiconductor Newport Beach
Most cited
By later US patents
- Two-dimensional optoelectronic tune-switch268US 5,671,304 AUniversite Laval · 1997
- Scattering device on an arrayed waveguide grating224US 8,958,665 B2Infinera Corporation · 2015
- Efficient reflective multiplexer arrangement134US 5,450,511 AAT&T Corp. · 1995
- Multiwavelength simultaneous monitoring circuit employing arrayed-waveguide grating133US 5,617,234 ANippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation · 1997
- Optical multiplexing and demultiplexing104US 6,366,378 B1Nokia Networks Oy · 2002