H01S 5/4012
Beam combining
Official title: {Beam combining, e.g. by the use of fibres, gratings, polarisers, prisms}
H01S5/4012 (Beam combining) appears on 1,353 US grants and 1,616 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01S- Granted patents
- 1,353
- Published applications
- 1,616
- Assignees
- 535
- Inventors
- 2,460
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1988 | 2 | 0 |
| 1989 | 4 | 0 |
| 1990 | 2 | 0 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 4 | 0 |
| 1994 | 6 | 0 |
| 1995 | 8 | 0 |
| 1996 | 14 | 0 |
| 1997 | 5 | 0 |
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| 2001 | 14 | 0 |
| 2002 | 11 | 22 |
| 2003 | 12 | 31 |
| 2004 | 24 | 43 |
| 2005 | 18 | 37 |
| 2006 | 27 | 47 |
| 2007 | 17 | 22 |
| 2008 | 19 | 26 |
| 2009 | 23 | 26 |
| 2010 | 32 | 30 |
| 2011 | 19 | 38 |
| 2012 | 21 | 41 |
| 2013 | 34 | 48 |
| 2014 | 49 | 49 |
| 2015 | 53 | 69 |
| 2016 | 65 | 73 |
| 2017 | 85 | 121 |
| 2018 | 81 | 110 |
| 2019 | 116 | 169 |
| 2020 | 123 | 124 |
| 2021 | 91 | 103 |
| 2022 | 76 | 113 |
| 2023 | 88 | 92 |
| 2024 | 78 | 73 |
| 2025 | 52 | 53 |
| 2026 | 41 | 56 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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