Patents | Optical Networking | Research | NEC Labs
Our Optical Networking & Sensing department develops new optics and photonics patents spanning the Internet backbone to the home.
Google Patents
Search and read the full text of patents from around the world with Google Patents, and find prior art in our index of non-patent literature.
Optical Patents (Class 365/234)
Search for Optical Patents and Patent Applications (Class 365/234) Filed with the USPTO
Optical Module Industry Statistics 2026
The number of patent applications for optical module technologies increased by 35% from 2020 to 2023, with fiber optic design and signal processing being the most active areas.
Patent Notices
Corning products may be protected by patents in the U.S. and elsewhere. For virtual patent notice regarding Corning products, please click on the links below for a listing of patents from each division
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Espacenet – patent search
Espacenet provides free access to over 120 million patent documents worldwide, enabling users to search, download, compare, and translate patents.
Explore NIST Technologies | NIST
This invention uses lasers and modulators to create special light waves called “optical frequency combs” that can scan multiple chemical features instantly. These combs detect chemicals by analyzing how
Lens Patent Search
Explore the linkages between documents and entities for this result set by viewing and analysing the forward and backward citations to other patents, as well as the non-patent literature citations that
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