G02B 6/4286
Optical modules with optical power monitoring
Official title: {Optical modules with optical power monitoring}
G02B6/4286 (Optical modules with optical power monitoring) appears on 604 US grants and 577 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 604
- Published applications
- 577
- Assignees
- 324
- Inventors
- 1,397
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 25 | 32 |
| 2025 | 28 | 32 |
| 2026 | 13 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- 400G silicon photonic package with self-aligned fiber22 Sep 2026US 12,742,940 B2SHUNYUN TECHNOLOGY (ZHONGSHAN) Limited
- 800G optical module with single-mode bidirectional fiber15 Sep 2026US 12,736,761 B2SHUNYUN TECHNOLOGY (ZHONGSHAN) Limited
- Intelligent panel system18 Aug 2026US 12,710,601 B2Go!Foton Holdings, Inc.
- Optical module11 Aug 2026US 12,704,689 B2Hisense Broadband Multimedia Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Wavelength-detecting optical fiber identifier apparatus and method11 Aug 2026US 12,704,691 B2AFL Telecommunications LLC
- Fiber-optic cable with monitoring of backward-propagating radiation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299233 A1Optoskand AB
- Generating encircled flux (ef) compliant signals in fiber optic links10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267085 A1Viavi Solutions Inc.
- System for determining optical probe location relative to a photonic integrated circuit20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243983 A1Keysight Technologies, Inc.
- Pluggable optical protection switch6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227586 A1II-VI Photonics, Inc.
- Fiber array unit with alignment fiber9 Jul 2026US 2026/0194723 A1Mellanox Technologies, Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Apparatus for launching or detecting waves of selected modes in an optical dielectric waveguide208US 4,125,768 AThe Post Office · 1978
- Small-scale optoelectronic package132US 6,910,812 B2Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation · 2005
- Laser diode module with integral cooling107US 6,072,814 AVideojet Systems International, Inc. · 2000
- Tunable optical instruments83US 7,002,697 B2Aegis Semiconductor, Inc. · 2006
- Optical module having lenses aligned on lens-positioning V-groove and fabrication method thereof77US 5,854,867 AElectronics and Telecommunications Research Institute · 1998