G02B 6/4268
Cooling
Official title: {Cooling (of instruments G12B15/00; of electric apparatus H05K7/20; of semiconductor devices H10W76/47)}
G02B6/4268 (Cooling) appears on 1,397 US grants and 1,644 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,397
- Published applications
- 1,644
- Assignees
- 492
- Inventors
- 3,097
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 88 | 114 |
| 2025 | 85 | 127 |
| 2026 | 60 | 115 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical fiber array with optical passthrough6 Oct 2026US 12,754,384 B2Lightmatter, Inc.
- Fiber connector bulkhead adapter with shroud for protecting high-power fiber6 Oct 2026US 12,754,385 B2nLIGHT, Inc.
- Optical module29 Sep 2026US 12,748,272 B2Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Enhanced optical module cooling with angled fins29 Sep 2026US 12,748,273 B2Ciena Corporation
- 400G silicon photonic package with self-aligned fiber22 Sep 2026US 12,742,940 B2SHUNYUN TECHNOLOGY (ZHONGSHAN) Limited
- Heterogeneous packaging integration of photonic and electronic elements8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309942 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Dual duplex belly-to-belly little connector (bblc) based optical connectors8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309946 A1II-Vi Delaware, Inc.
- Semiconductor Device and Method of Forming Fan-Out Wafer Level CPO with Through Silicon Conductive Via1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299219 A1STATS ChipPAC Pte. Ltd.
- Next generation fiber optic module1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299228 A1
- Integrated optical assembly1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299231 A1Lumentum Technology UK Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical transmission terminal device160US 5,960,141 AFujitsu Limited · 1999
- Temperature stable solid-state laser package132US 5,181,214 AHarmonic Lightwaves, Inc. · 1993
- Small-scale optoelectronic package132US 6,910,812 B2Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation · 2005
- 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