H01S 3/2316
Cascaded amplifiers
Official title: {Cascaded amplifiers}
H01S3/2316 (Cascaded amplifiers) appears on 450 US grants and 460 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 450
- Published applications
- 460
- Assignees
- 242
- Inventors
- 951
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 |
| 1978 | 1 | 0 |
| 1979 | 3 | 0 |
| 1980 | 3 | 0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1990 | 7 | 0 |
| 1991 | 3 | 0 |
| 1992 | 2 | 0 |
| 1993 | 6 | 0 |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 6 | 0 |
| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 8 | 0 |
| 1999 | 5 | 0 |
| 2000 | 4 | 0 |
| 2001 | 3 | 1 |
| 2002 | 9 | 5 |
| 2003 | 2 | 4 |
| 2004 | 2 | 9 |
| 2005 | 5 | 16 |
| 2006 | 6 | 6 |
| 2007 | 6 | 9 |
| 2008 | 8 | 13 |
| 2009 | 9 | 17 |
| 2010 | 13 | 29 |
| 2011 | 16 | 15 |
| 2012 | 14 | 22 |
| 2013 | 27 | 28 |
| 2014 | 28 | 31 |
| 2015 | 31 | 26 |
| 2016 | 26 | 21 |
| 2017 | 21 | 27 |
| 2018 | 23 | 33 |
| 2019 | 20 | 18 |
| 2020 | 23 | 32 |
| 2021 | 21 | 23 |
| 2022 | 22 | 17 |
| 2023 | 13 | 15 |
| 2024 | 15 | 19 |
| 2025 | 13 | 11 |
| 2026 | 9 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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