G01S 7/4812
Transmitted and received beams following a coaxial path
Official title: {transmitted and received beams following a coaxial path}
G01S7/4812 (Transmitted and received beams following a coaxial path) appears on 776 US grants and 938 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
- 776
- Published applications
- 938
- Assignees
- 384
- Inventors
- 1,719
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
| 1978 | 2 | 0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 7 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 0 |
| 2001 | 5 | 3 |
| 2002 | 9 | 9 |
| 2003 | 14 | 8 |
| 2004 | 7 | 13 |
| 2005 | 8 | 13 |
| 2006 | 4 | 9 |
| 2007 | 9 | 8 |
| 2008 | 16 | 10 |
| 2009 | 9 | 17 |
| 2010 | 6 | 18 |
| 2011 | 17 | 12 |
| 2012 | 14 | 14 |
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| 2014 | 23 | 20 |
| 2015 | 13 | 20 |
| 2016 | 12 | 15 |
| 2017 | 25 | 42 |
| 2018 | 29 | 63 |
| 2019 | 52 | 67 |
| 2020 | 36 | 91 |
| 2021 | 46 | 106 |
| 2022 | 72 | 109 |
| 2023 | 95 | 83 |
| 2024 | 75 | 77 |
| 2025 | 50 | 59 |
| 2026 | 33 | 32 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Optical ranging camera339US 6,057,909 A3DV Systems Ltd. · 2000
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