H01S 5/0428
For applying pulses to the laser
Official title: {for applying pulses to the laser}
H01S5/0428 (For applying pulses to the laser) appears on 610 US grants and 721 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 610
- Published applications
- 721
- Assignees
- 339
- Inventors
- 1,328
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 2003 | 3 | 5 |
| 2004 | 9 | 14 |
| 2005 | 1 | 11 |
| 2006 | 6 | 3 |
| 2007 | 9 | 4 |
| 2008 | 3 | 9 |
| 2009 | 7 | 15 |
| 2010 | 10 | 23 |
| 2011 | 17 | 21 |
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| 2018 | 24 | 33 |
| 2019 | 36 | 42 |
| 2020 | 28 | 63 |
| 2021 | 40 | 79 |
| 2022 | 36 | 89 |
| 2023 | 45 | 71 |
| 2024 | 62 | 56 |
| 2025 | 65 | 46 |
| 2026 | 25 | 25 |
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