G02B 6/3554
3d constellations, i.e. with switching elements and switched beams located in a
Official title: {3D constellations, i.e. with switching elements and switched beams located in a volume}
G02B6/3554 (3d constellations, i.e. with switching elements and switched beams located in a) appears on 814 US grants and 668 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Intelligent optical switch12 May 2026US 12,625,326 B2Go!Foton Holdings, Inc.
- Large scale steerable coherent optical switched arrays18 Nov 2025US 12,474,528 B2Analog Photonics LLC
- Programmable optical chip and terminal4 Nov 2025US 12,461,424 B2United Microelectronics Center Co., Ltd
- Rapid fiber optic alignment techniques for optical switching28 Oct 2025US 12,455,421 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- High-reliability robotic cross-connect systems12 Aug 2025US 12,386,120 B2Telescent Inc.
- Optically disaggregated high bandwidth memory system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251867 A1Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
- Glass optical interposer assembly27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251872 A1Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
- Polarization-diverse integrated photonic switch with multi-layer waveguides20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243951 A1
- Intelligent Optical Switch6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227575 A1Go!Foton Holdings, Inc.
- A system for directing incident light onto spatial light modulator planes30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219457 A1Huber+Suhner Polatis Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical switching apparatus324US 6,295,154 B1Texas Instruments Incorporated · 2001
- Micromechanical optical switch and flat panel display310US 5,771,321 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1998
- Multi-wavelength cross-connect optical switch282US 6,097,859 AThe Regents of the University of California · 2000
- Optical device utilizing optical waveguides and mechanical light-switches177US 5,953,469 AXeotron Corporation · 1999
- GRIN fiber lenses160US 6,542,665 B2Lucent Technologies Inc. · 2003