G02B 6/4226
Positioning means for moving the elements into alignment
Official title: {Positioning means for moving the elements into alignment, e.g. alignment screws, deformation of the mount}
G02B6/4226 (Positioning means for moving the elements into alignment) appears on 597 US grants and 437 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Methods for aligning an optical connector with an optical component18 Aug 2026US 12,710,605 B2Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
- Optical fiber positioning apparatus comprising one or more apparatus alignment features7 Jul 2026US 12,674,940 B2Intel Corporation
- Optical fiber positioning apparatus23 Jun 2026US 12,663,590 B2Intel Corporation
- Optical device and manufacturing method for optical device30 Sep 2025US 12,429,657 B2Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations, Inc.
- Rotational and translational micropositioners using deformable microelectromechanical systems16 Sep 2025US 12,418,251 B2
- Optical fiber positioning device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276912 A1GLOBALFOUNDRIES U. S. Inc.
- Laser source transmission system and manufacturing method of the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280715 A1AuthenX Inc.
- Bonding structure, photonic integrated circuit, and method for active alignment of optical axis of semiconductor optical device with optical axis of optical circuit on substrate27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251848 A1
- System for determining optical probe location relative to a photonic integrated circuit20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243983 A1Keysight Technologies, Inc.
- Methods and apparatuses for fiber alignment30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219461 A1IonQ, Inc.
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