G01S 7/4818
Using optical fibres
Official title: {using optical fibres}
G01S7/4818 (Using optical fibres) appears on 898 US grants and 1,115 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
- 898
- Published applications
- 1,115
- Assignees
- 450
- Inventors
- 1,843
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 62 | 75 |
| 2026 | 57 | 46 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
- Integrated system for quickly and accurately imaging and modeling three dimensional objects476US 5,988,862 ACyra Technologies, Inc. · 1999
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- Fiber-based ladar transceiver for range/doppler imaging with frequency comb generator277US 5,835,199 ACoherent Technologies, Inc. · 1998
- Image acquisition with depth enhancement208US 6,563,105 B2University of Washington · 2003
- Laser obstacle ranging and display192US 7,847,235 B2Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop Ltd. · 2010