G02B 6/3576
Temperature or heat actuation
Official title: {Temperature or heat actuation (thermal forces controlling reflecting elements in general G02B26/0866; thermo-optic devices G02F1/0147)}
G02B6/3576 (Temperature or heat actuation) appears on 187 US grants and 140 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 187
- Published applications
- 140
- Assignees
- 103
- Inventors
- 352
- Latest grant
- 10 Feb 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Light modulating device and electronic apparatus including the same10 Feb 2026US 12,547,046 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Shape memory alloy actuators and methods thereof29 Jul 2025US 12,372,858 B2Hutchinson Technology Incorporated
- Edge couplers with a fine-alignment mechanism24 Jun 2025US 12,339,494 B2GLOBALFOUNDRIES U. S. Inc.
- Shape memory alloy actuators and methods thereof11 Mar 2025US 12,248,233 B2Hutchinson Technology Incorporated
- Shape memory alloy actuators and methods thereof6 Aug 2024US 12,055,844 B2Hutchinson Technology Incorporated
- Data transmission device and data transmission method18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169226 A1Industrial Technology Research Institute
- Actuatable optical waveguide12 Mar 2026US 2026/0072208 A1Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Shape Memory Alloy Actuators And Methods Thereof13 Nov 2025US 2025/0347982 A1Hutchinson Technology Incorporated
- Apparatus and method for managing temperature of a high-power pluggable optical module14 Aug 2025US 2025/0258349 A1Ciena Corporation
- Tunable edge-coupled interface for silicon photonic integrated circuits (pics) and method for making same6 Feb 2025US 2025/0044537 A1Intel Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Thin film shape memory alloy and method for producing411US 4,864,824 AAmerican Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories · 1989
- Microfluidic control using dielectric pumping157US 6,949,176 B2Lightwave Microsystems Corporation · 2005
- Thermal optical switches for light145US 6,212,308 B1Agilent Technologies, Inc. · 2001
- Total internal reflection optical switches employing thermal activation137US 5,699,462 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1997
- Wavelength selective cross-connect switch using a MEMS shutter array124US 6,535,311 B1Corning Incorporated · 2003