H01S 5/06216
Pulse modulation or generation
Official title: {Pulse modulation or generation}
H01S5/06216 (Pulse modulation or generation) appears on 461 US grants and 471 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 461
- Published applications
- 471
- Assignees
- 290
- Inventors
- 1,100
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1976 | 2 | 0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981 | 2 | 0 |
| 1982 | 1 | 0 |
| 1983 | 0 | 0 |
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| 1997 | 3 | 0 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 |
| 2000 | 6 | 0 |
| 2001 | 4 | 2 |
| 2002 | 10 | 4 |
| 2003 | 6 | 6 |
| 2004 | 6 | 4 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 | 4 |
| 2007 | 5 | 4 |
| 2008 | 2 | 8 |
| 2009 | 3 | 14 |
| 2010 | 3 | 15 |
| 2011 | 11 | 23 |
| 2012 | 18 | 26 |
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| 2015 | 25 | 15 |
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| 2017 | 17 | 19 |
| 2018 | 20 | 24 |
| 2019 | 30 | 35 |
| 2020 | 23 | 28 |
| 2021 | 28 | 41 |
| 2022 | 27 | 38 |
| 2023 | 14 | 31 |
| 2024 | 26 | 33 |
| 2025 | 35 | 22 |
| 2026 | 10 | 14 |
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