G02B 6/4457
Bobbins
Official title: {Bobbins; Reels}
G02B6/4457 (Bobbins) appears on 1,112 US grants and 916 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 1,112
- Published applications
- 916
- Assignees
- 376
- Inventors
- 1,690
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 33 | 45 |
| 2025 | 40 | 33 |
| 2026 | 15 | 20 |
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
- Routing tool for installation of fiber optic cables and method of using same25 Aug 2026US 12,717,109 B2Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Deployable on-board optical fiber link for aerial drones11 Aug 2026US 12,703,518 B2Sedi-Ati Fibres Optiques
- Optical connectivity module and chassis11 Aug 2026US 12,704,692 B2Huber+Suhner AG
- Cable system11 Aug 2026US 12,706,232 B2Landways Management Limited
- While-drilling fiber optic communication system and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309953 A1Wuhan University of Technology
- Cable management system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309954 A1
- Optical fiber package, package product, stacked body, and method for extracting optical fiber1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299244 A1Sumitomo Electric Optifrontier Co., Ltd.
- Optical cable storage assembly for a data cabinet in a fiber optic network10 Sep 2026US 2026/0267107 A1Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Cable slack management apparatus for co-packaged opto-electrical devices3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259386 A1Corning Research & Development Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical fiber distribution frame with outside plant enclosure510US 6,760,531 B1ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2004
- Outside plant fiber distribution apparatus and method337US 6,160,946 AADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2000
- Termination and splice panel281US 6,631,237 B2ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2003
- Outside plant fiber distribution apparatus and method280US 6,363,200 B1ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2002
- Telecommunications connection cabinet265US 7,233,731 B2ADC Telecommunications, Inc. · 2007