Materials, Metallurgy

Citations to U.S. patents by U.S. patents granted in 2020

Top 10   [Cited by Examiner | Cited by Applicant]

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Most Cited by Examiners

  1. 9 6989508    High-speed, precision, laser-based method and system for processing material of one or more targets within a field
  Inventors: Jonathan S. Ehrmann; James Cordingley; Donald V. Smart; Donald J. Svetkoff

  1. 9 8184363    All-fiber integrated high power coherent beam combination
  Inventors: Joshua E. Rothenberg

  1. 9 9170367    Waveguides having patterned, flattened modes
  Inventors: Michael J. Messerly; Paul H. Pax; Jay W. Dawson

  4. 8 4252403    Coupler for a graded index fiber
  Inventors: Glenn C. Salisbury

  4. 8 4266851    Coupler for a concentric core optical fiber
  Inventors: Glenn C. Salisbury

  4. 8 4475027    Optical beam homogenizer
  Inventors: Robert J. Pressley

  4. 8 5153773    Illumination device including amplitude-division and beam movements
  Inventors: Masato Muraki; Akiyoshi Suzuki; Shunzo Imai

  4. 8 5475415    Optical head and printing system forming interleaved output laser light beams
  Inventors: Mark Noethen

  4. 8 5864430    Gaussian beam profile shaping apparatus, method therefor and evaluation thereof
  Inventors: Fred M. Dickey; Scott C. Holswade; Louis Anthony Romero

  4. 8 5986807    Single binary optical element beam homogenizer
  Inventors: David K. Fork

  4. 8 6433301    Beam shaping and projection imaging with solid state UV Gaussian beam to form vias
  Inventors: Corey Dunsky; Xinbing Liu; Nicholas J. Croglio, Jr.; Ho Wai Lo; Bryan Charles Gundrum; Hisashi Matsumoto

  4. 8 6483973    Cladding member for optical fibers and optical fibers formed with the cladding member
  Inventors: David Mazzarese; John D. Prohaska; Malcolm C. Smith; Kanishka Tankala

  4. 8 6496301    Helical fiber amplifier
  Inventors: Jeffrey P. Koplow; Dahy Kliner; Lew Goldberg

  4. 8 6632491    IG window unit and method of making the same
  Inventors: Scott V. Thomsen; Ronald E. Laird

  4. 8 6639177    Method and system for processing one or more microstructures of a multi-material device
  Inventors: Jonathan S. Ehrmann; James Cordingley; Donald V. Smart; Donald J. Svetkoff

  4. 8 6802943    Coated article with improved barrier layer structure and method of making the same
  Inventors: Grzegorz Stachowiak

  4. 8 7116887    Optical fiber
  Inventors: Julia Farroni; Adrian Carter; Kanishka Tankala

  4. 8 7157661    Method and apparatus for laser machining
  Inventors: Jun Amako

  4. 8 7257293    Fiber structure with improved bend resistance
  Inventors: John Fini; Siddharth Ramachandran

  4. 8 7537395    Diode-laser-pump module with integrated signal ports for pumping amplifying fibers and method
  Inventors: Matthias P. Savage-Leuchs

  4. 8 7876495    Apparatus and method for compensating for and using mode-profile distortions caused by bending optical fibers
  Inventors: John D. Minelly

  4. 8 7924500    Micro-structured fiber profiles for mitigation of bend-loss and/or mode distortion in LMA fiber amplifiers, including dual-core embodiments
  Inventors: John D. Minelly

  4. 8 8561543    Lightweight polymer ammunition cartridge casings
  Inventors: Lonnie Burrow

  4. 8 8711471    High power fiber amplifier with stable output
  Inventors: Chang Liu; Jason N. Farmer; Anmol Nijjar; Xiaojun Li

  4. 8 8728591    Polymer film, phase difference film, polarizing plate, liquid crystal display device, retardation inducing agent, and merocyanine-based compound
  Inventors: Hiroshi Inada; Ryo Nakamura; Masaki Noro

  4. 8 9322989    Optical fiber with distributed bend compensated filtering
  Inventors: John Fini; Jeffrey W. Nicholson

  4. 8 9325151    Systems and techniques for compensation for the thermo-optic effect in active optical fibers
  Inventors: John Fini; Supradeepa V. S. Ramakrishna

  4. 8 9339890    Optimization and control of beam quality for material processing
  Inventors: Kenneth J. Woods; Sanjay Garg; Tate S. Picard

  4. 8 9366887    Systems and methods for laser systems with variable beam parameter product utilizing thermo-optic effects
  Inventors: Parviz Tayebati; Francisco VILLARREAL-SAUCEDO; Bien Chann; Dat Nguyen; Michael Deutsch

  4. 8 9546849    Lightweight polymer ammunition cartridge casings
  Inventors: Lonnie Burrow

  4. 8 9933241    Method of making a primer insert for use in polymer ammunition
  Inventors: Lonnie Burrow

  4. 8 9939236    Method of making a casing and cartridge for firearm
  Inventors: Volodymyr Drobockyi; Anthony Viggiano

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Most Cited by Applicants

  1. 41 4863538    Method and apparatus for producing parts by selective sintering
  Inventors: Carl R. Deckard

  1. 41 5204055    Three-dimensional printing techniques
  Inventors: Emanuel M. Sachs; John S. Haggerty; Michael J. Cima; Paul A. Williams

  3. 29 6676892    Direct selective laser sintering of metals
  Inventors: Suman Das; Joseph J. Beaman

  4. 28 5837960    Laser production of articles from powders
  Inventors: Gary K. Lewis; John O. Milewski; David A. Cremers; Ronald B. Nemec; Michael R. Barbe

  5. 26 9254535    Apparatuses, systems and methods for three-dimensional printing
  Inventors: Benyamin Buller; Erel Milshtein

  6. 24 5387380    Three-dimensional printing techniques
  Inventors: Michael J. Cima; Emanuel M. Sachs; Tailin Fan; James F. Bredt; Steven P Michaels; Satbir Khanuja; Alan Lauder; Sang Joon Lee; David Brancazio; Alain Curodeau; Harald Tuerck

  6. 24 5508489    Apparatus for multiple beam laser sintering
  Inventors: John A. Benda; Aristotle Parasco

  8. 23 5182170    Method of producing parts by selective beam interaction of powder with gas phase reactant
  Inventors: Harris L. Marcus; Udaykumar Lakshminarayan; David L. Bourell

  8. 23 6046426    Method and system for producing complex-shape objects
  Inventors: Francisco P. Jeantette; David M. Keicher; Joseph Romero; Lee P. Schanwald

  8. 23 6811744    Forming structures from CAD solid models
  Inventors: David M. Keicher; James W. Love; Kevin J. Dullea; James Bullen; Pierrette H. Gorman; Mark Ethard Smith

 
 
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