H04Q 2011/003
Using switches based on microelectro-mechanical systems [mems]
Official title: {using switches based on microelectro-mechanical systems [MEMS]}
H04Q2011/003 (Using switches based on microelectro-mechanical systems [mems]) appears on 229 US grants and 235 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04Q- Granted patents
- 229
- Published applications
- 235
- Assignees
- 123
- Inventors
- 494
- Latest grant
- 14 Oct 2025
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 1 |
| 2002 | 16 | 38 |
| 2003 | 20 | 24 |
| 2004 | 24 | 17 |
| 2005 | 20 | 16 |
| 2006 | 14 | 13 |
| 2007 | 13 | 11 |
| 2008 | 12 | 14 |
| 2009 | 10 | 3 |
| 2010 | 7 | 9 |
| 2011 | 7 | 3 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5 |
| 2013 | 2 | 6 |
| 2014 | 8 | 5 |
| 2015 | 8 | 10 |
| 2016 | 12 | 10 |
| 2017 | 6 | 5 |
| 2018 | 7 | 6 |
| 2019 | 5 | 1 |
| 2020 | 8 | 16 |
| 2021 | 10 | 6 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5 |
| 2023 | 3 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 3 |
| 2025 | 2 | 4 |
| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Tunable optical add/drop multiplexer14 Oct 2025US 12,445,221 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- MEMS wavelength selectable switch for adaptive wavelength filtering25 Feb 2025US 12,235,438 B2Beijing Voyager Technology Co., Ltd.
- Secondary grid plates for optical switching applications29 Oct 2024US 12,130,475 B2Google Inc.
- Optical cross-connect9 Apr 2024US 11,953,732 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Optical link diagnostic system20 Feb 2024US 11,910,134 B2Google Inc.
- Machine-learning based approach for robust configuration of optically interconnected data centers5 Feb 2026US 2026/0039981 A1Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
- Artificial intelligence computing system and method1 Jan 2026US 2026/0006355 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Software-Reconfigurable Optical Routing Architecture for Adaptive AI Computation4 Sep 2025US 2025/0280216 A1
- In-band operations and management for optical switch7 Aug 2025US 2025/0254449 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Wavelength selective switch, method for scheduling transmission direction of light beam, and optical switching node15 May 2025US 2025/0155647 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Fiber-optic free-space micromachined matrix switches155US 5,960,132 AAT&T Corp. · 1999
- Modular all-optical cross-connect126US 6,614,953 B2Photuris, Inc. · 2003
- Optical cross-connect switch using a pin grid actuator99US 5,841,917 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1998
- Modular three-dimensional optical switch93US 6,567,574 B1OMM, Inc. · 2003
- Micromachined members coupled for relative rotation by hinges87US 6,392,220 B1XROS, Inc. · 2002