H04B 10/116
Visible light communication
H04B10/116 (Visible light communication) appears on 1,917 US grants and 2,342 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 1,917
- Published applications
- 2,342
- Assignees
- 647
- Inventors
- 3,085
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 2 | 3 |
| 2002 | 5 | 5 |
| 2003 | 8 | 8 |
| 2004 | 4 | 7 |
| 2005 | 6 | 16 |
| 2006 | 9 | 15 |
| 2007 | 4 | 19 |
| 2008 | 5 | 33 |
| 2009 | 10 | 45 |
| 2010 | 14 | 34 |
| 2011 | 24 | 55 |
| 2012 | 30 | 56 |
| 2013 | 46 | 69 |
| 2014 | 63 | 124 |
| 2015 | 95 | 145 |
| 2016 | 132 | 219 |
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| 2019 | 241 | 198 |
| 2020 | 162 | 188 |
| 2021 | 138 | 140 |
| 2022 | 101 | 135 |
| 2023 | 105 | 121 |
| 2024 | 135 | 109 |
| 2025 | 87 | 118 |
| 2026 | 38 | 47 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Techniques for visible light communication-assisted broadcast transmissions6 Oct 2026US 12,756,466 B2QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Composition and method for making picocrystalline artificial borane atoms6 Oct 2026US 12,757,646 B2SemiNuclear, Inc.
- Advance orientation of a drone antenna22 Sep 2026US 12,743,097 B2Dell Products L. P.
- Radio frequency link transmission of uplink communications associated with visible light communications15 Sep 2026US 12,739,031 B2QUALCOMM Incorproated
- Smart optical wireless communication systems25 Aug 2026US 12,719,575 B2Signify Holding B. V.
- Light-based device communication8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312683 A1Markem-Imaje Corporation
- Receiving device, transmitting device, and optical wireless communication system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0291618 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- An optical wireless communication system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280706 A1Signify Holding B. V.
- Method of pilot light offset compensation in optical wireless communication systems17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280707 A1Signify Holding B. V.
- Receiving device and optical wireless communication system17 Sep 2026US 2026/0280708 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Universal lighting network methods and systems1,007US 6,548,967 B1Color Kinetics Incorporated · 2003
- Universal lighting network methods and systems437US 7,309,965 B2Color Kinetics Incorporated · 2007
- Illuminative light communication device346US 7,583,901 B2Nakagawa Laboratories, Inc. · 2009
- Traffic information system using light emitting diodes283US 5,633,629 A1997
- Communication system223US 4,601,064 AFisher Berkeley Corporation · 1986