G06E
Optical computing devices
Official title: OPTICAL COMPUTING DEVICES (digital storage using optical elements G11C13/04)
G06E (Optical computing devices) appears on 845 US grants and 602 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06E- Granted patents
- 845
- Published applications
- 602
- Assignees
- 348
- Inventors
- 1,539
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 10 | 0 |
| 1978 | 18 | 0 |
| 1979 | 8 | 0 |
| 1980 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981 | 6 | 0 |
| 1982 | 12 | 0 |
| 1983 | 6 | 0 |
| 1984 | 9 | 0 |
| 1985 | 14 | 0 |
| 1986 | 19 | 0 |
| 1987 | 21 | 0 |
| 1988 | 21 | 0 |
| 1989 | 34 | 0 |
| 1990 | 39 | 0 |
| 1991 | 37 | 0 |
| 1992 | 36 | 0 |
| 1993 | 34 | 0 |
| 1994 | 30 | 0 |
| 1995 | 16 | 0 |
| 1996 | 20 | 0 |
| 1997 | 24 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 13 | 0 |
| 2000 | 11 | 0 |
| 2001 | 10 | 0 |
| 2002 | 7 | 10 |
| 2003 | 5 | 11 |
| 2004 | 10 | 15 |
| 2005 | 11 | 10 |
| 2006 | 11 | 7 |
| 2007 | 5 | 7 |
| 2008 | 6 | 8 |
| 2009 | 6 | 10 |
| 2010 | 10 | 14 |
| 2011 | 11 | 4 |
| 2012 | 11 | 15 |
| 2013 | 10 | 22 |
| 2014 | 14 | 9 |
| 2015 | 13 | 5 |
| 2016 | 6 | 6 |
| 2017 | 11 | 7 |
| 2018 | 8 | 18 |
| 2019 | 18 | 24 |
| 2020 | 16 | 34 |
| 2021 | 23 | 47 |
| 2022 | 29 | 32 |
| 2023 | 32 | 59 |
| 2024 | 40 | 48 |
| 2025 | 39 | 49 |
| 2026 | 27 | 131 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Main groups
Granted patents with any code in the group
Recent patents
- Optical computing device, optical computing method, and manufacturing method for optical computing device29 Sep 2026US 12,748,453 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Optical computing device and optical computing method15 Sep 2026US 12,736,721 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Optical computing chip and system, and data processing technology15 Sep 2026US 12,736,997 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Time-multiplexed photonic computer8 Sep 2026US 12,730,354 B2California Institute of Technology
- Optical computation device and optical computation method1 Sep 2026US 12,724,284 B2Fujikura Ltd.
- Computing system using dynamic optical switch and operation method thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310511 A1Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
- High-speed metasurface programming system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299338 A1Neurophos Inc.
- Wafer-level intelligent photonic computing chip system and architecture1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299637 A1Tsinghua University
- Architecture and system of fully reconfigurable universal intelligent light computing chip1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299638 A1Tsinghua University
- Optical computing method, large-scale reconfigurable photonic large-matrix model, and architecture1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299639 A1Tsinghua University
Most cited
By later US patents
- Semiconductor thin film formed on a supporting substrate355US 5,646,432 ASeiko Instruments Inc. · 1997
- Real time optical correlation system299US 5,327,286 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1994
- Optical signal free-space conversion board245US 5,296,950 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1994
- Image-forming method and image-forming apparatus229US 6,239,909 B1Olympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 2001
- A plurality of optical crossbar switches and exchange switches for parallel processor computer162US 4,811,210 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1989