H04B 10/43
Using a single component as both light source and receiver
Official title: using a single component as both light source and receiver, e.g. using a photoemitter as a photoreceiver
H04B10/43 (Using a single component as both light source and receiver) appears on 190 US grants and 172 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 190
- Published applications
- 172
- Assignees
- 130
- Inventors
- 450
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2023 | 7 | 10 |
| 2024 | 12 | 19 |
| 2025 | 2 | 8 |
| 2026 | 9 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Light emitting diode and data transmission and reception apparatus70US 9,905,725 B2Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology · 2018
- Optical transmission-reception apparatus51US 6,188,495 B1Sony Corporation · 2001
- Method and system for a photonic interposer50US 8,831,437 B2Luxtera, Inc. · 2014
- Monolithic dual mode emitter-detector terminal for optical waveguide transmission lines46US 3,952,265 AHughes Aircraft Company · 1976
- Diode capable of alternately functioning as an emitter and detector of light of the same wavelength45US 4,202,000 AThomson-CSF · 1980