G02B 6/3624
Fibre head
Official title: {Fibre head, e.g. fibre probe termination (optical details of light guide terminations G02B6/241; reshaping of light guides G02B6/2552; optical details of coupling light into or out of fibre end G02B6/262)}
G02B6/3624 (Fibre head) appears on 465 US grants and 414 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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| 2026 | 14 | 7 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Optical fiber transmission device and manufacturing method thereof15 Sep 2026US 12,736,754 B2AuthenX Inc.
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- Modular Radiant Light Generation in Analysis System10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266761 A1DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
- Optical interfacing device with an array of tapered optical fibers30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219448 A1IonQ, Inc.
- Shape Sensing Fiber Optic Tip Protection Systems and Devices23 Jul 2026US 2026/0207267 A1Bard Access Systems, Inc.
- Optical network interface card and optical transmission apparatus11 Jun 2026US 2026/0160957 A1AIP Inc.
- Laser processing heads and systems for connecting fiber optic cable to optics9 Apr 2026US 2026/0099008 A1II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fiber optical probe connector for physiologic measurement devices736US 4,974,929 ABaxter International Inc. · 1990
- Imaging fiber optic array sensors, apparatus, and methods for concurrently detecting multiple analytes of interest in a fluid sample301US 5,244,636 ATrustees of Tufts College · 1993
- Guidance and delivery system for high-energy pulsed laser light214US 5,188,632 AAdvanced Interventional Systems, Inc. · 1993
- Vaporization contact laser probe187US 4,736,743 ASurgical Laser Technology, Inc. · 1988
- Radial medical laser delivery device173US 5,292,320 ACeramOptec, Inc. · 1994