H01S 5/0262
Photo-diodes
Official title: {Photo-diodes, e.g. transceiver devices, bidirectional devices (H01S5/0265 takes precedence)}
H01S5/0262 (Photo-diodes) appears on 836 US grants and 695 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 836
- Published applications
- 695
- Assignees
- 312
- Inventors
- 1,613
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 1 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 1 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986 | 3 | 0 |
| 1987 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988 | 14 | 0 |
| 1989 | 10 | 0 |
| 1990 | 7 | 0 |
| 1991 | 8 | 0 |
| 1992 | 11 | 0 |
| 1993 | 11 | 0 |
| 1994 | 28 | 0 |
| 1995 | 16 | 0 |
| 1996 | 16 | 0 |
| 1997 | 23 | 0 |
| 1998 | 32 | 0 |
| 1999 | 24 | 0 |
| 2000 | 15 | 0 |
| 2001 | 18 | 6 |
| 2002 | 16 | 24 |
| 2003 | 30 | 32 |
| 2004 | 23 | 14 |
| 2005 | 13 | 75 |
| 2006 | 53 | 37 |
| 2007 | 32 | 35 |
| 2008 | 21 | 19 |
| 2009 | 27 | 14 |
| 2010 | 26 | 17 |
| 2011 | 13 | 15 |
| 2012 | 18 | 11 |
| 2013 | 11 | 13 |
| 2014 | 14 | 9 |
| 2015 | 14 | 12 |
| 2016 | 17 | 22 |
| 2017 | 18 | 18 |
| 2018 | 11 | 26 |
| 2019 | 36 | 37 |
| 2020 | 23 | 32 |
| 2021 | 26 | 51 |
| 2022 | 20 | 45 |
| 2023 | 36 | 38 |
| 2024 | 41 | 37 |
| 2025 | 31 | 41 |
| 2026 | 20 | 15 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Tunable hybrid III-V/IV laser sensor system-on-a chip for real-time monitoring of a blood constituent concentration level18 Aug 2026US 12,708,293 B2Brolis Sensor Technology, UAB et al.
- Light emitting device14 Jul 2026US 12,683,352 B2Nichia Corporation
- Laser Unit for a Rotary Laser and Rotary Laser with the Laser Unit24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291170 A1Robert Bosch GmbH
- Semiconductor optical device, semiconductor optical integrated device, and semiconductor optical apparatus17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282599 A1Lumentum Operations LLC
- Semiconductor photo detector and semiconductor device10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271424 A1NTT, Inc.
- Semiconductor Optical Integrated Device20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246229 A1NTT, Inc.
- Optoelectronic semiconductor component20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246233 A1ams-OSRAM International GmbH
Most cited
By later US patents
- High performance gaas devices and method497US 5,436,499 ASpire Corporation · 1995
- Thin film electro-optical devices231US 4,766,471 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1988
- Process for mounting device and optical transmission apparatus157US 6,599,769 B2Seiko Epson Corporation · 2003
- Single chip scanning lidar and method of producing the same134US 9,310,471 B2HRL Laboratories, LLC · 2016
- VCSEL-based multi-wavelength transmitter and receiver modules for serial and parallel optical links129US 5,914,976 AW. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. · 1999