H04B 10/80
Optical aspects relating to the use of optical transmission for specific applications
Official title: Optical aspects relating to the use of optical transmission for specific applications, not provided for in groups H04B10/03 - H04B10/70, e.g. optical power feeding or optical transmission through water
H04B10/80 (Optical aspects relating to the use of optical transmission for specific applications) appears on 2,655 US grants and 2,757 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 2,655
- Published applications
- 2,757
- Assignees
- 1,108
- Inventors
- 4,979
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1976 | 5 | 0 |
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| 1978 | 6 | 0 |
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| 1980 | 6 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 18 | 7 |
| 2002 | 29 | 36 |
| 2003 | 27 | 35 |
| 2004 | 27 | 61 |
| 2005 | 30 | 41 |
| 2006 | 38 | 56 |
| 2007 | 34 | 38 |
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| 2011 | 51 | 77 |
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| 2015 | 96 | 127 |
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| 2017 | 168 | 204 |
| 2018 | 186 | 201 |
| 2019 | 216 | 174 |
| 2020 | 174 | 166 |
| 2021 | 166 | 159 |
| 2022 | 147 | 199 |
| 2023 | 134 | 163 |
| 2024 | 155 | 144 |
| 2025 | 136 | 152 |
| 2026 | 60 | 104 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Wireless power distribution system6 Oct 2026US 12,756,239 B2Wi-Charge Ltd.
- Methods and apparatuses providing optical beamforming crossbar arrays for radio communications6 Oct 2026US 12,756,482 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Testing apparatus for high-rate transmission and reception of signals between device under test and semiconductor testing apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,748,144 B2Advantest Corporation
- Photonic memory fabric for system memory interconnection15 Sep 2026US 12,737,118 B2Sicily Merger Sub II, Inc.
- Systolic memory access15 Sep 2026US 12,737,319 B2Micron Technology, Inc.
- System and method for optically transmitting electrical power or communications signals8 Oct 2026US 2026/0312434 A1University of Connecticut
- Optical system control device, optical system control method, and recording medium1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303212 A1NEC Corporation
- System and Method for Enabling High Speed Optical Communication Inside and Between PC Boards, 3D Multi-Chip Modules and Other Electronic Systems1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303224 A1
- Secure optical frequency comb (ofc), two-way optical time transfer (twott) system and associated method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303225 A1Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
- Multi-chip electro-photonic networks and photonic memory fabrics for interconnecting multiple circuit packages24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288336 A1Celestial AI Inc.
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- Quasi-optical coupler578US 9,209,902 B2AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P. · 2015
- Fibre optic single mode rotary joint307US 5,039,193 AFocal Technologies Incorporated · 1991
- Method and apparatus for providing power to waveguide systems232US 10,371,889 B1AT&T Intellectual Property I, L. P. · 2019
- Thin film electro-optical devices231US 4,766,471 AEnergy Conversion Devices, Inc. · 1988