H04B 10/501
Structural aspects
Official title: {Structural aspects}
H04B10/501 (Structural aspects) appears on 4,597 US grants and 4,642 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 4,597
- Published applications
- 4,642
- Assignees
- 1,282
- Inventors
- 7,363
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 7 | 0 |
| 1977 | 6 | 0 |
| 1978 | 3 | 0 |
| 1979 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980 | 4 | 0 |
| 1981 | 5 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 8 | 0 |
| 1984 | 7 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 15 | 0 |
| 1991 | 30 | 0 |
| 1992 | 23 | 0 |
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| 1996 | 23 | 0 |
| 1997 | 22 | 0 |
| 1998 | 47 | 0 |
| 1999 | 47 | 0 |
| 2000 | 66 | 0 |
| 2001 | 74 | 27 |
| 2002 | 73 | 141 |
| 2003 | 100 | 146 |
| 2004 | 89 | 169 |
| 2005 | 72 | 152 |
| 2006 | 135 | 109 |
| 2007 | 87 | 109 |
| 2008 | 104 | 102 |
| 2009 | 96 | 100 |
| 2010 | 97 | 126 |
| 2011 | 99 | 85 |
| 2012 | 93 | 124 |
| 2013 | 92 | 116 |
| 2014 | 134 | 147 |
| 2015 | 152 | 201 |
| 2016 | 230 | 227 |
| 2017 | 248 | 293 |
| 2018 | 256 | 311 |
| 2019 | 343 | 284 |
| 2020 | 288 | 303 |
| 2021 | 257 | 263 |
| 2022 | 260 | 275 |
| 2023 | 231 | 228 |
| 2024 | 216 | 233 |
| 2025 | 188 | 189 |
| 2026 | 128 | 182 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Electronic devices employing optical communications6 Oct 2026US 12,756,464 B2Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P.
- Beat-note stabilized laser with received-power tracker6 Oct 2026US 12,756,474 B2ColdQuanta, Inc.
- Independent channel control in coherent optics6 Oct 2026US 12,756,475 B2Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
- Optical transmitter including splitting elements, external modulators, and wavelength multiplexers, and optical transceiver including polarization separation elements, wavelength demultiplexers, polarization rotation elements, and photodetectors6 Oct 2026US 12,756,476 B2Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
- Optical receiving apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,756,479 B2Signify Holding B. V.
- Assembly for transmitting light and optical transceiver including same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312685 A1Optomind Inc.
- Optical relay apparatus, optical transmission system, and optical relay method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312687 A1NEC Corporation
- Optical transmission system and operating method thereof8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312690 A1Agency for Defense Development
- Semiconductor structure1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299197 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Optical waveguide device, and optical modulation device and optical transmission apparatus using same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299229 A1Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Quasi-optical coupler578US 9,209,902 B2AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P. · 2015
- Method and apparatus for an L.E.D. flashlight530US 6,095,661 APPT Vision, Inc. · 2000
- Crosstalk-free signal source for dense wavelength division multiplexed systems308US 6,233,080 B1Ciena Corporation · 2001
- Programmable LED driver226US 6,144,222 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000
- Alternating sequential half duplex communication system218US 4,979,170 AQUALCOMM Incorporated · 1990