H01S 5/1007
Branched waveguides
Official title: {Branched waveguides}
H01S5/1007 (Branched waveguides) appears on 88 US grants and 109 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 88
- Published applications
- 109
- Assignees
- 55
- Inventors
- 219
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
Filings by year
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| 1993 | 1 | 0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996 | 1 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2007 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 4 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 | 4 |
| 2015 | 5 | 7 |
| 2016 | 6 | 8 |
| 2017 | 9 | 4 |
| 2018 | 5 | 8 |
| 2019 | 6 | 7 |
| 2020 | 4 | 11 |
| 2021 | 7 | 16 |
| 2022 | 7 | 6 |
| 2023 | 6 | 9 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 | 9 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Bistable element99US 8,774,572 B2Kyushu University, National University Corporation · 2014
- Methods, systems, and apparatus for coherent beam combining36US 9,134,538 B1Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2015
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