G02B 6/3823
Containing surplus lengths, internal fibre loops
Official title: {containing surplus lengths, internal fibre loops (provisionally see also G02B6/444)}
G02B6/3823 (Containing surplus lengths, internal fibre loops) appears on 128 US grants and 90 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- 16 Dec 2025
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
- Termination module for use in an array of modules246US 4,986,762 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1991
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