G02B 6/3843
With auxiliary facilities for movably aligning or adjusting the fibre within its
Official title: {with auxiliary facilities for movably aligning or adjusting the fibre within its ferrule, e.g. measuring position or eccentricity (testing the alignment of axes, including eccentricity, G01B11/27)}
G02B6/3843 (With auxiliary facilities for movably aligning or adjusting the fibre within its) appears on 374 US grants and 251 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 374
- Published applications
- 251
- Assignees
- 171
- Inventors
- 614
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 20 | 17 |
| 2025 | 15 | 15 |
| 2026 | 7 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods of optical fiber reshaping for direct locking optical fibers and correcting core-to-ferrule eccentricity errors1 Sep 2026US 12,724,207 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Precision non-contact measurement of core-to-ferrule offset vectors for fiber optic assemblies25 Aug 2026US 12,716,809 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Multiports and other devices having connection ports with securing features and methods of making the same4 Aug 2026US 12,699,231 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Optical connector, optical connector module, and method for producing optical connector28 Apr 2026US 12,613,378 B2Enplas Corporation
- Multiports having connection ports with securing features that actuate flexures and methods of making the same17 Feb 2026US 12,554,075 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Optical connector, optical module, and method for evaluating optical connector25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177752 A1Enplas Corporation
- Method and system for assembly and calibration of polarization-maintaining fibers in co-packaged optics21 May 2026US 2026/0140324 A1Foci Fiber Optic Communications, Inc.
- Fiber optic connector with overmold lead-in tube5 Feb 2026US 2026/0036764 A1CommScope Technologies LLC
- Measuring method and measuring device of optical characteristics of multi-core optical fiber1 Jan 2026US 2026/0002837 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Ferrule assembly, prefabricated optical fiber, and optical fiber connector16 Oct 2025US 2025/0321385 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical fiber ferrule connector having enhanced provisions for tuning418US 5,212,752 AAT&T Bell Laboratories · 1993
- Connector for optical fiber402US 5,481,634 AAT&T Corp. · 1996
- Fiber optic connector having snap ring adjustment means253US 5,142,598 APorta Systems Corp. · 1992
- Optical fiber connector tuning index tool248US 6,464,402 B1Fitel USA Corp. · 2002
- Optical connector having a one-piece housing243US 6,206,581 B1Lucent Technologies Inc. · 2001