G02B 6/3578
Piezoelectric force
Official title: {Piezoelectric force (piezoelectric forces controlling reflecting elements in general G02B26/0858; piezo-optic devices G02F1/0131)}
G02B6/3578 (Piezoelectric force) appears on 234 US grants and 210 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 234
- Published applications
- 210
- Assignees
- 141
- Inventors
- 457
- Latest grant
- 8 Oct 2024
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Devices, systems, and methods with a piezoelectric-driven light intensity modulator31 Oct 2023US 11,803,018 B2Hi LLC
- Compact micro electrical mechanical actuated ring-resonator11 Jul 2023US 11,698,487 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Alignment arrangement for aligning a first and a second optical component as well as a corresponding system26 Mar 2026US 2026/0086295 A1
- Devices, systems, and methods including micro- or nano- cantilever structures11 Dec 2025US 2025/0376369 A1Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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