G02B 6/425
Optical features
Official title: {Optical features (semiconductor laser arrays H01S5/40; hybrid LED arrays H10W90/00)}
G02B6/425 (Optical features) appears on 460 US grants and 447 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 460
- Published applications
- 447
- Assignees
- 252
- Inventors
- 1,036
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 15 | 19 |
| 2026 | 8 | 9 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Fiber-based transmitter and receiver channels of light detection and ranging systems22 Sep 2026US 12,742,860 B2Seyond, Inc.
- Optical fiber shuffle circuit22 Sep 2026US 12,742,934 B2Lightmatter, Inc.
- Fiber alignment system22 Sep 2026US 12,742,938 B2Corning Incorporated
- Heterogeneous packaging integration of photonic and electronic elements18 Aug 2026US 12,710,606 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Optical module11 Aug 2026US 12,706,429 B2Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Heterogeneous packaging integration of photonic and electronic elements8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309942 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Optical coupling device and optical transmission unit17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276920 A1AIP Inc.
- Component with photonic integrated circuit3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259382 A1ams-OSRAM International GmbH
- Computing system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243984 A1Shanghai Xizhi Technology Co., Ltd.
- Chip, module, device, and system for optical interconnection6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227585 A1Shanghai Xizhi Technolgy Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Alternating sequential half duplex communication system218US 4,979,170 AQUALCOMM Incorporated · 1990
- Collector for an LED array195US 4,767,172 AXerox Corporation · 1988
- Sub-wavelength aperture arrays with enhanced light transmission137US 5,973,316 ANEC Research Institute, Inc. · 1999
- Light emitting element and array of light emitting elements for light source103US 5,631,474 ARicoh Company, Ltd. · 1997
- Near-field scanning optical microscope having a sub-wavelength aperture array for enhanced light transmission102US 6,052,238 ANEC Research Institute, Inc. · 2000