G02B 6/3886
Magnetic means to align ferrule ends
Official title: {Magnetic means to align ferrule ends}
G02B6/3886 (Magnetic means to align ferrule ends) appears on 93 US grants and 105 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 93
- Published applications
- 105
- Assignees
- 70
- Inventors
- 225
- Latest grant
- 5 Aug 2025
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| 2026 | 0 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Optical and electrical diagnostic systems and methods thereof5 Aug 2025US 12,376,794 B2Bard Access Systems, Inc.
- Optical connecting component and optical connecting structure15 Apr 2025US 12,276,847 B2Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Package expanded beam connector for on-package optics24 Dec 2024US 12,174,436 B2Intel Corporation
- Contactless connector and contactless connector assembly5 Nov 2024US 12,136,953 B2Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
- Magnetic self-mating fiber optic connector and fiber optic switch sensor13 Aug 2024US 12,061,365 B2National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
- Magnetically attachable fiber coupler13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235820 A1Lightmatter, Inc.
- Optical connector, optical module, plug, and connection method25 Jun 2026US 2026/0177753 A1Hakusan Inc.
- Tool30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118600 A1Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Optical component structure and optical transceiver module12 Feb 2026US 2026/0043970 A1Accelight Technologies (Wuhan) Inc.
- Optical-fiber connector8 Jan 2026US 2026/0009954 A1Advanced Connectek Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Magnetic clamp for holding ferromagnetic elements during connection thereof131US 6,607,304 B1JDS Uniphase Corporation · 2003
- Hybrid electro-optical connectors97US 4,844,582 A1989
- Magnetic connector with optical signal path76US 7,841,776 B2Apple Inc. · 2010
- Rotary joint for optical fibers63US 4,641,915 AKokusai Denshindenwa Co., Ltd. · 1987
- Ferrule assemblies, connector assemblies, and optical couplings having coded magnetic arrays54US 8,781,273 B2Corning Cable Systems LLC · 2014