G02B 6/2856
Formed or shaped by thermal heating means
Official title: {formed or shaped by thermal heating means, e.g. splitting, branching and/or combining elements}
G02B6/2856 (Formed or shaped by thermal heating means) appears on 231 US grants and 104 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 231
- Published applications
- 104
- Assignees
- 135
- Inventors
- 439
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
| 1982 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1984 | 4 | 0 |
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| 1992 | 12 | 0 |
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| 1995 | 9 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 10 | 0 |
| 1998 | 7 | 0 |
| 1999 | 9 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 1 |
| 2002 | 5 | 5 |
| 2003 | 1 | 3 |
| 2004 | 4 | 1 |
| 2005 | 4 | 5 |
| 2006 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 3 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4 |
| 2015 | 3 | 6 |
| 2016 | 3 | 6 |
| 2017 | 10 | 7 |
| 2018 | 6 | 5 |
| 2019 | 5 | 8 |
| 2020 | 8 | 6 |
| 2021 | 7 | 3 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 | 8 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 |
| 2025 | 5 | 8 |
| 2026 | 4 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- High-brightness combiner with shaped capillary11 Aug 2026US 12,704,679 B2Lumentum Operations LLC
- System and method for manufacturing all-fiber side-pump combiners with plurality of pumps17 Mar 2026US 12,580,361 B2Lightel Technologies, Inc.
- Light modulating device and electronic apparatus including the same10 Feb 2026US 12,547,046 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Multiple signal fiber, optical pump-signal combiner10 Feb 2026US 12,548,966 B2Lumentum Operations LLC
- Multichannel optical coupler array2 Dec 2025US 12,487,418 B2Chiral Photonics, Inc.
- Capillary tube end face processing to reduce heating of fiber optic combiners6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227573 A1Lumentum Operations LLC
- Power splitters16 Apr 2026US 2026/0104547 A1
- Reducing an impact of backward light on laser combiner reliability with absorbers19 Feb 2026US 2026/0050121 A1Lumentum Operations LLC
- Reducing an impact of backward light on laser combiner reliability with scattering elements19 Feb 2026US 2026/0050174 A1Lumentum Operations LLC
- A communications device30 Oct 2025US 2025/0337502 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- System and method for optical coherence imaging448US 7,366,376 B2The General Hospital Corporation · 2008
- Optical coupler, a method of its fabrication and use252US 7,532,792 B2Crystal Fibre A/S · 2009
- Tapered fiber bundles for coupling light into and out of cladding-pumped fiber devices163US 5,864,644 ALucent Technologies Inc. · 1999
- Optical couplers for multimode fibers116US 6,434,302 B1JDS Uniphase Corporation · 2002
- Fiber optics access coupler68US 4,054,366 AHughes Aircraft Company · 1977