G02B 6/4251
Sealed packages
Official title: {Sealed packages (G02B6/4248 takes precedence)}
G02B6/4251 (Sealed packages) appears on 575 US grants and 597 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 575
- Published applications
- 597
- Assignees
- 289
- Inventors
- 1,380
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1986 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 10 | 0 |
| 1999 | 15 | 0 |
| 2000 | 12 | 0 |
| 2001 | 28 | 16 |
| 2002 | 25 | 36 |
| 2003 | 33 | 51 |
| 2004 | 31 | 36 |
| 2005 | 30 | 27 |
| 2006 | 29 | 15 |
| 2007 | 11 | 15 |
| 2008 | 21 | 10 |
| 2009 | 6 | 6 |
| 2010 | 8 | 10 |
| 2011 | 6 | 9 |
| 2012 | 5 | 5 |
| 2013 | 12 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 | 19 |
| 2015 | 15 | 12 |
| 2016 | 16 | 34 |
| 2017 | 32 | 26 |
| 2018 | 28 | 30 |
| 2019 | 25 | 29 |
| 2020 | 27 | 23 |
| 2021 | 20 | 30 |
| 2022 | 23 | 26 |
| 2023 | 22 | 30 |
| 2024 | 22 | 30 |
| 2025 | 20 | 41 |
| 2026 | 13 | 26 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical module29 Sep 2026US 12,748,272 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Waveguide structure and method for forming the same18 Aug 2026US 12,710,671 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Sealing structure for optoelectronic transceiver device28 Jul 2026US 12,693,482 B2
- Heat dissipater assembly23 Jun 2026US 12,663,598 B2Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Dual duplex belly-to-belly little connector (BBLC) based optical connectors23 Jun 2026US 12,663,599 B2II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
- Dual duplex belly-to-belly little connector (bblc) based optical connectors8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309946 A1II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
- Waveguide structure and method for forming the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310012 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Next generation fiber optic module1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299228 A1
- Optical module including lid24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287834 A1Global Technology Inc.
- Molded fiber connector assembly for pluggable optical mcp24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287837 A1Altera Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Removable transceiver module and receptacle254US 5,879,173 AMethode Electronics, Inc. · 1999
- Optical transmission terminal device160US 5,960,141 AFujitsu Limited · 1999
- Multiwavelength actively mode-locked external cavity semiconductor laser111US 6,192,058 B1Sarnoff Corporation · 2001
- Laser diode module with integral cooling107US 6,072,814 AVideojet Systems International, Inc. · 2000
- LED lamp with direct optical coupling in axial arrangement91US 7,588,359 B2Osram Sylvania Inc. · 2009