G01S 7/4916
Using self-mixing in the laser cavity
Official title: {using self-mixing in the laser cavity}
G01S7/4916 (Using self-mixing in the laser cavity) appears on 107 US grants and 118 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01S- Granted patents
- 107
- Published applications
- 118
- Assignees
- 66
- Inventors
- 241
- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
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| 2023 | 13 | 9 |
| 2024 | 8 | 5 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7 |
| 2026 | 4 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Laser sensor and method of manufacturing a laser sensor26 May 2026US 12,640,541 B2ams International AG
- Distance and speed measuring apparatus21 Apr 2026US 12,607,746 B2Stera Vision Co., Ltd.
- SPAD lidar system with binned pixels24 Feb 2026US 12,560,721 B2GM Cruise Holdings LLC
- Eye tracking using self-mixing interferometry3 Feb 2026US 12,541,100 B2Apple Inc.
- Collaborative phase-shift laser ranging device based on differential modulation and demodulation of coarse and precise measuring wavelength and ranging method thereof18 Nov 2025US 12,474,474 B2
- Detection device and corresponding detection method13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235756 A1ams-OSRAM AG
- Dual self-mixing interferometry device and method29 Jan 2026US 2026/0029531 A1ams-OSRAM Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
- Fmcw lidar system, electronic device and method for driving a lidar system18 Dec 2025US 2025/0383430 A1ams International AG
- Self-mixing interferometry sensor module for multilayer target detection, electronic device and method of multilayer target detection23 Oct 2025US 2025/0327654 A1ams International AG
- Self-mixing interferometry sensor module, electronic device and method of detecting movement28 Aug 2025US 2025/0271253 A1ams International AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of measuring the movement of an input device185US 6,707,027 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2004
- Self-mixing sensor apparatus and method95US 6,233,045 B1Light Works LLC · 2001
- Optical input device for measuring finger movement59US 6,872,931 B2Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. · 2005
- Imaging system with confocally self-detecting laser38US 5,563,710 AThe Schepens Eye Research Institute, Inc. · 1996
- Method and apparatus for determining the range, direction and velocity of an object34US 5,748,295 AUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. · 1998