G02B 6/3803
Adjustment or alignment devices for alignment prior to splicing
Official title: {Adjustment or alignment devices for alignment prior to splicing}
G02B6/3803 (Adjustment or alignment devices for alignment prior to splicing) appears on 346 US grants and 103 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
- Alignment of adiabatic optical interfaces21 Jul 2026US 12,687,672 B2IonQ, Inc.
- Optical fiber alignment method and alignment device, and connection device14 Apr 2026US 12,601,876 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Methods and systems for alignment and positioning of optical fibers17 Jun 2025US 12,332,485 B2RAM Photonics Industrial, LLC
- Core position grasping method, connection method, and connection device20 Feb 2024US 11,906,783 B2Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Optical connector and optical connector manufacturing method10 Oct 2023US 11,782,216 B2Orbray Co., Ltd.
- Ophthalmic illumination devices and methods for manufacturing coupling assemblies thereof30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219432 A1Alcon Inc.
- Optical connector29 Jan 2026US 2026/0029579 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Assembly of hollow core optical fiber with micro-optic glass plate for connectivity and method of making same29 Jan 2026US 2026/0029586 A1Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Methods and systems for alignment and positioning of optical fibers28 Aug 2025US 2025/0271622 A1RAM Photonics Industrial, LLC
- Mcf connection system and mcf connection method31 Jul 2025US 2025/0244538 A1NEC Corporation
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- Thermal arched beam microelectromechanical devices and associated fabrication methods116US 5,994,816 AMcnc · 1999
- Optoelectronic packaging106US 6,456,766 B1Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. · 2002
- Thermal arched beam microelectromechanical valve87US 6,114,794 ACronos Integrated Microsystems, Inc. · 2000