G02B 6/44528
Patch-cords
Official title: {Patch-cords; Connector arrangements in the system or in the box (routing arrangements H04Q1/00)}
G02B6/44528 (Patch-cords) appears on 1,992 US grants and 2,101 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Support frame assemblies for optical fiber management trays29 Sep 2026US 12,748,275 B2CommScope Technologies LLC
- Plastic optical fiber, hybrid cable, patch cord, and active optical cable22 Sep 2026US 12,742,924 B2Nitto Denko Corporation
- Device for providing enhanced optical fiber cable connectivity and management in a fiber distribution assembly1 Sep 2026US 12,724,218 B2Ppc Broadband, Inc.
- High fiber count cable distribution systems, apparatuses, and methods1 Sep 2026US 12,726,740 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Modules for spliced cable connections25 Aug 2026US 12,717,106 B2Go!Foton Holdings, Inc.
- Bladed chassis systems8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310267 A1CommScope Technologies LLC
- Patch Panel With Configurable Port Groups1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299242 A1Go!Foton Holdings, Inc.
- Optical wiring component, optical wiring unit, optical wiring module, and optical fiber-wiring method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299243 A1Fujikura Ltd.
- Optical fiber package, package product, stacked body, and method for extracting optical fiber1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299244 A1Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co., Ltd.
- Optical patch panel17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276933 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- High-density fiber distribution frame835US 5,497,444 AADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 1996
- High-density fiber distribution frame603US 5,717,810 AADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 1998
- Fiber distribution frame system, cabinets, trays and fiber optic connector couplings556US 5,402,515 AMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company · 1995
- Fiber termination block with angled slide556US 6,591,051 B2ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2003
- Optical fiber distribution apparatus539US 4,792,203 AADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 1988