G02B 6/40
Having fibre bundle mating means
Official title: having fibre bundle mating means
G02B6/40 (Having fibre bundle mating means) appears on 592 US grants and 651 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 592
- Published applications
- 651
- Assignees
- 265
- Inventors
- 972
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 38 | 69 |
| 2025 | 31 | 33 |
| 2026 | 24 | 24 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Recent patents
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- Method for making optical fiber bundle structure, and method for connecting optical fiber bundle structure with multicore fiber28 Jul 2026US 12,692,186 B2Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
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- Method For Orienting And Terminating Polarization-Maintaining (PM) Optical Fiber And Forming A PM Optical Fiber Assembly1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299213 A1OpTek Systems, Inc.
- Multi-Core Optical Cable Adapter1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299217 A1Go!Foton Holdings, Inc.
- Optical waveguide device, optical connection structure, and optical connection method24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287817 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Optical connector, ferrule, and optical connector module17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276901 A1Enplas Corporation
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- Methods and apparatus for filtering an optical fiber165US 6,222,970 B1Cirrex Corp. · 2001
- Variable stiffness electrically conductive composite, resistive heating catheter shaft162US 6,562,021 B1Micrus Corporation · 2003