H03F 3/08
Controlled by light
Official title: controlled by light
H03F3/08 (Controlled by light) appears on 1,476 US grants and 1,195 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03F- Granted patents
- 1,476
- Published applications
- 1,195
- Assignees
- 661
- Inventors
- 2,384
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977 | 4 | 0 |
| 1978 | 7 | 0 |
| 1979 | 2 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
| 1982 | 6 | 0 |
| 1983 | 3 | 0 |
| 1984 | 8 | 0 |
| 1985 | 9 | 0 |
| 1986 | 13 | 0 |
| 1987 | 9 | 0 |
| 1988 | 15 | 0 |
| 1989 | 13 | 0 |
| 1990 | 9 | 0 |
| 1991 | 16 | 0 |
| 1992 | 18 | 0 |
| 1993 | 15 | 0 |
| 1994 | 28 | 0 |
| 1995 | 17 | 0 |
| 1996 | 16 | 0 |
| 1997 | 18 | 0 |
| 1998 | 26 | 0 |
| 1999 | 27 | 0 |
| 2000 | 20 | 0 |
| 2001 | 19 | 4 |
| 2002 | 25 | 17 |
| 2003 | 34 | 37 |
| 2004 | 41 | 46 |
| 2005 | 38 | 56 |
| 2006 | 40 | 72 |
| 2007 | 52 | 56 |
| 2008 | 45 | 56 |
| 2009 | 58 | 54 |
| 2010 | 42 | 48 |
| 2011 | 46 | 48 |
| 2012 | 51 | 42 |
| 2013 | 46 | 50 |
| 2014 | 59 | 50 |
| 2015 | 54 | 57 |
| 2016 | 51 | 51 |
| 2017 | 69 | 43 |
| 2018 | 34 | 45 |
| 2019 | 58 | 56 |
| 2020 | 54 | 57 |
| 2021 | 45 | 61 |
| 2022 | 66 | 47 |
| 2023 | 42 | 49 |
| 2024 | 42 | 42 |
| 2025 | 37 | 32 |
| 2026 | 17 | 19 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Optical transceiver6 Oct 2026US 12,756,473 B2Lumentum Operations LLC
- Electronic devices with ambient flicker detection8 Sep 2026US 12,730,001 B2Apple Inc.
- High-speed single-ended-to-differential converter with skew control8 Sep 2026US 12,732,283 B1Sicily Merger Sub II, Inc.
- Signal processing25 Aug 2026US 12,719,418 B2Nordic Semiconductor ASA
- Variable gain optical modulator with open collector driver amplifier and method of operation18 Aug 2026US 12,712,508 B2MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.
- A fast settling offset compensated photon counting frontend8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312546 A1ams-OSRAM AG
- Systems and Methods for Intelligent Transimpedance Amplifiers1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303039 A1TeraSignal LLC
- Harmonic rejection upconverter architecture with improved harmonic rejection17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280597 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Improved bandwidth for large photodiode receiver in lifi systems10 Sep 2026US 2026/0269952 A1Signify Holding B. V.
- Light detection circuit20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243600 A1Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Wireless diffuse infrared LAN system257US 5,724,168 ASpectrix Corporation · 1998
- Information retrieval system and apparatus251US 4,536,866 AVideonics of Hawaii, Inc. · 1985
- Sensor readout detector circuit206US 5,793,230 ASandia Corporation · 1998
- Envelope tracking with low frequency loss correction123US 9,831,834 B2Skyworks Solutions, Inc. · 2017
- Circuit for estimating position and orientation of a mobile object115US 7,148,458 B2Evolution Robotics, Inc. · 2006