G02B 6/383
Hermaphroditic connectors, i.e. two identical plugs mating with one another, each plug
Official title: {Hermaphroditic connectors, i.e. two identical plugs mating with one another, each plug having both male and female diametrically opposed engaging parts; (electric hermaphroditic coupling H01R24/84, H01R13/28)}
G02B6/383 (Hermaphroditic connectors, i.e. two identical plugs mating with one another, each plug) appears on 185 US grants and 136 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 136
- Assignees
- 83
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- 242
- Latest grant
- 14 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Field repairable hermaphroditic connector399US 6,234,683 B1Stratos Lightwave, Inc. · 2001
- Multi-channel fiber optic connector145US 6,305,849 B1Fiber Systems International · 2001
- Hermaphroditic connector for single fiber optical cable129US 5,210,810 AAT&T Bell Laboratories · 1993
- Fiber optic connector having an annular-shaped floating seal assembly126US 6,357,929 B1Fiber Systems International · 2002
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