G02B 6/4476
With heat-shrinkable elements
Official title: {with heat-shrinkable elements}
G02B6/4476 (With heat-shrinkable elements) appears on 150 US grants and 86 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G02B- Granted patents
- 150
- Published applications
- 86
- Assignees
- 66
- Inventors
- 265
- Latest grant
- 28 Oct 2025
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| 2023 | 3 | 1 |
| 2024 | 4 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Fiber optic cable assembly with high packing density and method of making same29 Jan 2026US 2026/0029602 A1Corning Research & Development Corporation
- Methods for forming a demarcation on an optical cable and related optical cable assemblies5 Jun 2025US 2025/0180848 A1Corning Research & Development Corporation
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Fiber optic cable having spliceless fiber branch and method of making294US 5,125,060 AAlcatel NA Cable Systems, Inc. · 1992
- Preterminated optical cable214US 4,961,623 ASiecor Corporation · 1990
- Optical fiber cable having spliced fiber branch and method of making the same200US 5,210,812 AAlcatel NA Cable Systems, Inc. · 1993
- Y-branch splittable connector187US 6,619,697 B2NKF Kabel B.V. · 2003
- High performance, flexible optical fiber furcation185US 6,771,861 B2Corning Cable Systems LLC · 2004