H04B 10/508
Pulse generation
Official title: Pulse generation, e.g. generation of solitons
H04B10/508 (Pulse generation) appears on 395 US grants and 388 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04B- Granted patents
- 395
- Published applications
- 388
- Assignees
- 223
- Inventors
- 861
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1977 | 2 | 0 |
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| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
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| 1981 | 3 | 0 |
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| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
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| 2000 | 7 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 7 |
| 2002 | 6 | 22 |
| 2003 | 12 | 49 |
| 2004 | 16 | 38 |
| 2005 | 16 | 28 |
| 2006 | 31 | 30 |
| 2007 | 16 | 12 |
| 2008 | 22 | 11 |
| 2009 | 17 | 12 |
| 2010 | 16 | 8 |
| 2011 | 12 | 5 |
| 2012 | 5 | 8 |
| 2013 | 7 | 5 |
| 2014 | 8 | 3 |
| 2015 | 5 | 14 |
| 2016 | 15 | 12 |
| 2017 | 18 | 9 |
| 2018 | 8 | 10 |
| 2019 | 13 | 14 |
| 2020 | 14 | 14 |
| 2021 | 12 | 9 |
| 2022 | 8 | 14 |
| 2023 | 12 | 13 |
| 2024 | 17 | 23 |
| 2025 | 22 | 13 |
| 2026 | 6 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Cable detect and EMI reduction apparatus and method140US 6,576,833 B2Cisco Technology, Inc. · 2003
- Generation of optical signals with RF components136US 5,777,771 ABritish Telecommunications plc · 1998
- Optical transmission system132US 5,543,952 ANippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation · 1996
- Autonomous ultra-short optical pulse compression, phase compensating and waveform shaping device105US 7,177,027 B2Japan Science and Technology Agency · 2007
- Apparatus and method for transmitting binary-coded information92US 4,027,152 AHewlett-Packard Company · 1977