G02B 6/3684
Characterised by the manufacturing process of surface profiling of the supporting carrier
Official title: {characterised by the manufacturing process of surface profiling of the supporting carrier (manufacturing microsystems per se B81C1/00015)}
G02B6/3684 (Characterised by the manufacturing process of surface profiling of the supporting carrier) appears on 674 US grants and 505 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
- Electro-optical interconnect platform4 Aug 2026US RE50,979 E1Teramount Ltd.
- Fiber holders and associated methods for maintaining relative orientiation of fibers therein21 Jul 2026US 12,687,679 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Optical fiber positioning apparatus comprising one or more apparatus alignment features7 Jul 2026US 12,674,940 B2Intel Corporation
- Optical fiber positioning apparatus23 Jun 2026US 12,663,590 B2Intel Corporation
- Receptacle for a light guide bundle, method and intermediate product for the production thereof2 Jun 2026US 12,645,038 B2Schott AG
- Optical integrated circuit with encapsulated edge coupler10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267075 A1Phix B.V.
- Optical interfacing device with an array of tapered optical fibers30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219448 A1IonQ, Inc.
- Optical device and method of manufacture5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036769 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Optical path conversion component and method for manufacturing optical path conversion component1 Jan 2026US 2026/0003127 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Optical component, optical module and manufacturing method for optical module11 Dec 2025US 2025/0377503 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Silicon substrate having a recess for receiving an element, and a method of producing such a recess526US 6,482,663 B1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) · 2002
- Method of making an integrated, microminiature electric-to-fluidic valve283US 4,966,646 AThe Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford University · 1990
- Structure for micro-machine optical tooling and method for making and using166US 6,049,650 ASeagate Technology LLC · 2000
- Integrated, microminiature electric to fluidic valve and pressure/flow regulator162US 4,943,032 AStanford University · 1990
- Optoelectronic packaging106US 6,456,766 B1Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. · 2002