G02B 6/3586
Control or adjustment details
Official title: {Control or adjustment details, e.g. calibrating (testing optical equipment G01M11/00)}
G02B6/3586 (Control or adjustment details) appears on 523 US grants and 464 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 523
- Published applications
- 464
- Assignees
- 251
- Inventors
- 1,058
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 3 | 0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 0 |
| 1987 | 3 | 0 |
| 1988 | 1 | 0 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990 | 1 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 0 |
| 1995 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996 | 3 | 0 |
| 1997 | 9 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 16 | 9 |
| 2002 | 27 | 75 |
| 2003 | 55 | 56 |
| 2004 | 67 | 54 |
| 2005 | 40 | 31 |
| 2006 | 43 | 27 |
| 2007 | 27 | 21 |
| 2008 | 25 | 19 |
| 2009 | 19 | 17 |
| 2010 | 15 | 7 |
| 2011 | 8 | 5 |
| 2012 | 7 | 4 |
| 2013 | 1 | 4 |
| 2014 | 6 | 5 |
| 2015 | 9 | 13 |
| 2016 | 9 | 19 |
| 2017 | 18 | 15 |
| 2018 | 14 | 10 |
| 2019 | 10 | 11 |
| 2020 | 14 | 9 |
| 2021 | 8 | 4 |
| 2022 | 5 | 12 |
| 2023 | 6 | 5 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9 |
| 2025 | 8 | 9 |
| 2026 | 2 | 14 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Laser apparatus and laser machining apparatus using same18 Aug 2026US 12,710,620 B2Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Optical system having optical supply sub-system with redundant light source2 Jun 2026US 12,645,034 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Rapid fiber optic alignment techniques for optical switching28 Oct 2025US 12,455,421 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Optical waveguide element and optical axis adjustment method14 Oct 2025US 12,442,986 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Branch ratio measuring device, branch ratio measuring method, and optical multiplexing/demultiplexing circuit manufacturing method14 Oct 2025US 12,442,987 B2NTT, Inc.
- In-Service Active Alignment for High Port Count Optical Cross Connect20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243967 A1Ciena Corporation
- Optical circuit switch20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243968 A1Lumentum Operations LLC
- Optical switching28 May 2026US 2026/0147161 A1Eoptolink Technology Singapore Pte. Ltd.
- Photonic devices and systems including photonic devices21 May 2026US 2026/0140317 A1Infineon Technologies Austria AG
- Wavelength selective switch with multiple deflector arrays7 May 2026US 2026/0126591 A1O-Net Technologies (Canada) Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Laser endoscope for spectroscopic imaging418US 5,318,024 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1994
- Spectral diagonostic and treatment system393US 5,304,173 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1994
- Control of an optical fiber scanner337US 6,845,190 B1University of Washington · 2005
- Optical switching apparatus324US 6,295,154 B1Texas Instruments Incorporated · 2001
- Micro-fabricated optical waveguide for use in scanning fiber displays and scanned fiber image acquisition275US 6,856,712 B2University of Washington · 2005