G02B 6/4216
Incorporating polarisation-maintaining fibres
Official title: {incorporating polarisation-maintaining fibres (polarisation-maintaining fibres per se G02B6/105)}
G02B6/4216 (Incorporating polarisation-maintaining fibres) appears on 134 US grants and 94 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 134
- Published applications
- 94
- Assignees
- 83
- Inventors
- 325
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Chip-to-chip optical data communication system1 Sep 2026US 12,724,211 B2Ayar Labs, Inc.
- Optical fiber module5 May 2026US 12,619,040 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Optical isolators for multi-channel optical interconnects28 Apr 2026US 12,613,376 B2Intel Corporation
- Thermal design for rack mount systems including optical communication modules6 Jan 2026US 12,520,448 B2Nubis Communications, Inc.
- Optical wafer-level package23 Dec 2025US 12,504,590 B2Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Data processing systems including optical communication modules30 Apr 2026US 2026/0122823 A1Nubis Communications, Inc.
- Combined multiple shell lens facet with total internal multi-light-path tunnelling23 Apr 2026US 2026/0110858 A1Samba Photonics Lab Inc.
- Opto-electronic module and method of fabricating an opto-electronic apparatus16 Oct 2025US 2025/0321390 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Bent optical fiber, method for manufacturing bent optical fiber, and optical connection component13 Feb 2025US 2025/0052947 A1Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Data processing systems including optical communication modules23 Jan 2025US 2025/0031336 A1Nubis Communications, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Electrostatic microactuator and method for use thereof117US 5,998,906 ASeagate Technology LLC · 1999
- Methods and apparatus for optically measuring polarization rotation of optical wavefronts using rare earth iron garnets78US 6,534,977 B12003
- Hybrid optical pickup with integrated power emission and reading photodetectors77US 5,136,152 AHoetron, Inc. · 1992
- Varying beam parameter product of a laser beam67US 9,250,390 B2Amada Holdings Co., Ltd. · 2016
- Single mode, single polarization optical fiber with accessible guiding region and method of forming directional coupler using same54US 4,669,814 AAndrew Corporation · 1987