G02B 6/4296
Coupling with sources of high radiant energy
Official title: {coupling with sources of high radiant energy, e.g. high power lasers, high temperature light sources}
G02B6/4296 (Coupling with sources of high radiant energy) appears on 1,192 US grants and 981 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,192
- Published applications
- 981
- Assignees
- 607
- Inventors
- 2,268
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 33 | 41 |
| 2026 | 24 | 23 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Fiber connector bulkhead adapter with shroud for protecting high-power fiber6 Oct 2026US 12,754,385 B2nLIGHT, Inc.
- Laser diode system with low numerical aperture clad light stripping22 Sep 2026US 12,744,361 B2nLIGHT, Inc.
- Bridge coupling to surface emitters8 Sep 2026US 12,733,090 B2Credo Technology Group Limited
- Snout assembly25 Aug 2026US 12,717,101 B2Lumentum Operations LLC
- Optical fiber system for generating a side-emitting scattered laser radiation from a coupled optical laser radiation, and associated laser system25 Aug 2026US 12,717,102 B2Laserline Gesellschaft Fur Entwicklung Und Vertrieb Von Diodenlasern Mbh
- In-fiber beam shaping with short-focal-length lenses1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299220 A1
- Fiber-optic cable with monitoring of backward-propagating radiation1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299233 A1Optoskand AB
- Optoelectronic semiconductor unit as well as components and a production method thereof17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276914 A1ams-OSRAM International GmbH
- Optoelectrical connector for intravascular lithotripsy device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0263150 A1Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
- Computing system20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243984 A1Shanghai Xizhi Technology Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Smart recognition apparatus and method2,089US 6,068,627 AValleylab, Inc. · 2000
- Smart recognition apparatus and method675US 7,044,949 B2Sherwood Services AG · 2006
- Smart recognition apparatus and method484US 6,685,701 B2Sherwood Services AG · 2004
- Smart recognition apparatus and method479US 6,402,743 B1Sherwood Services AG · 2002
- Laser endoscope for spectroscopic imaging418US 5,318,024 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1994