H04B 10/803
Free space interconnects
Official title: {Free space interconnects, e.g. between circuit boards or chips}
H04B10/803 (Free space interconnects) appears on 237 US grants and 224 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 237
- Published applications
- 224
- Assignees
- 133
- Inventors
- 535
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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- Semiconductor integrated circuit device with optical transmit-receive means86US 5,198,684 AKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba · 1993