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Walter Benson

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2858
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434
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365
Pending Applications
8
Abandoned Applications
61

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Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/304075
Telecommunications tray assembly Jun 13, 2021 Issued
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17/343999
Mid-span fiber breakout Jun 9, 2021 Issued
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17/340713
Optical waveguide and optical device Jun 6, 2021 Issued
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17/339623
Optical fiber Jun 3, 2021 Issued
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17/329426
Wavelength selective switch based on LCoS May 24, 2021 Issued
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17/328014
Method and apparatus for optical sensing May 23, 2021 Issued
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17/324517
Glass fiber May 18, 2021 Issued
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17/316725
Universal optical fibre with double trench May 10, 2021 Issued
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17/317437
Ultra-high resolution scanning fiber display May 10, 2021 Issued
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17/314223
Fiber optic connector with cable boot release May 6, 2021 Issued
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17/302409
Biasing method for InP Mach-Zehnder modulators directly coupled to RF driver circuits May 2, 2021 Issued
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17/246936
Optical eyepiece using single-sided patterning of grating couplers May 2, 2021 Issued
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17/246690
Low-loss hollow-core antiresonant fiber May 1, 2021 Issued
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17/244611
Co-packaged optics switch solution based on analog optical engines Apr 28, 2021 Issued
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17/242777
Optical modulation for optoelectronic processing Apr 27, 2021 Issued
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17/234960
Methods for optical system manufacturing Apr 19, 2021 Issued
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17/235101
System for applying pre-strain to an optical sensor Apr 19, 2021 Issued
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17/233036
Passive compensation of non-uniform channel characteristics of spectrally selective device arrays in multiwavelength photonic integrated circuits Apr 15, 2021 Issued
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17/232843
Round and small diameter optical cables with a ribbon-like optical fiber structure Apr 15, 2021 Issued
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17/228577
Utility pole localization using distributed acoustic sensing Apr 11, 2021 Issued
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