G02B 6/3696
By moulding
Official title: {by moulding, e.g. injection moulding, casting, embossing, stamping, stenciling, printing, or with metallic mould insert manufacturing using LIGA or MIGA techniques (shaping the mould surface by machining B29C33/38; moulding techniques B29C39/00, B29C43/00, B29C45/00, B29C48/00, B29C59/00; stamping, printing or embossing techniques B81C1/00444; surface micromachining using LIGA B81C2201/032)}
G02B6/3696 (By moulding) appears on 196 US grants and 132 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 196
- Published applications
- 132
- Assignees
- 124
- Inventors
- 446
- Latest grant
- 20 May 2025
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 19 | 31 |
| 2004 | 10 | 11 |
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| 2007 | 8 | 2 |
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| 2022 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 3 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001.
Recent patents
- Optical fiber attachment device20 May 2025US 12,306,443 B2Xerox Corporation
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- Splice-on fiber optic connector holder2 May 2023US 11,640,032 B1
- Fiber array assembly using a fixing material for securing fiber optic bundles therein24 May 2022US 11,340,404 B2Senko Advanced Components, Inc.
- Method for manufacturing optical connector ferrule and optical connector ferrule24 May 2022US 11,340,407 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Optical fiber attachment device4 Sep 2025US 2025/0277940 A1Xerox Corporation
- Casting fabrication of reflective polymer waveguide6 Mar 2025US 2025/0076563 A1Google Inc.
- Fiber optic enclosure with integrated fiber tubes9 Jan 2025US 2025/0012995 A1CommScope Technologies LLC
- Actively aligned and reflowable pluggable-connector for photonic integrated circuits19 Dec 2024US 2024/0418944 A1Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Optical fiber structure and optical fiber array structure30 May 2024US 2024/0176077 A1Shunyun Technology (Zhong Shan) Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Laser illumination of multiple capillaries that form a waveguide95US 5,790,727 ABrookhaven Science Associates, LLC · 1998
- Optical connector and process for producing the same82US 4,830,456 ASumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. · 1989
- Integrated optical fiber coupler and method of making same75US 5,343,544 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1994
- Mold and method of producing the same73US 6,156,243 AHoya Corporation · 2000
- Optical harness with optical connector and cross-connect method72US 6,351,590 B1Lucent Technologies Inc. · 2002