G08C 23/06
Through light guides
Official title: through light guides, e.g. optical fibres
G08C23/06 (Through light guides) appears on 145 US grants and 102 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G08C- Granted patents
- 145
- Published applications
- 102
- Assignees
- 104
- Inventors
- 293
- Latest grant
- 16 Sep 2025
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| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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