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NLIGHT INC

Overview
  • Total Patents
    344
  • GoodIP Patent Rank
    4,344
  • Filing trend
    ⇧ 18.0%
About

NLIGHT INC has a total of 344 patent applications. It increased the IP activity by 18.0%. Its first patent ever was published in 2013. It filed its patents most often in United States, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) and China. Its main competitors in its focus markets optics, machines and machine tools are ZHOU WANG LONG, LIMO PATENTVERWALTUNG GMBH & CO KG and LASERLINE GES FUER ENTWICKLUNG.

Patent filings per year

Chart showing NLIGHT INCs patent filings per year from 1900 to 2020

Top inventors

# Name Total Patents
#1 Kliner Dahv A V 99
#2 Kanskar Manoj 69
#3 Farrow Roger 62
#4 Hemenway David Martin 34
#5 Farrow Roger L 32
#6 Chen Zhigang 31
#7 Martinsen Robert J 29
#8 Gross Ken 26
#9 Small Jay 25
#10 Brown Aaron 23

Latest patents

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WO2020247673A1 Fiber laser insensitive aiming laser
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US2020292806A1 Focus assessment in dynamically focused laser system
US2020292765A1 Calibration validation in galvanometric scanning systems
US2020287345A1 Methods to maintain and control the polarization state from 3c optical fiber
WO2020142506A1 Methods for srs protection of laser components and apparatus providing srs protection
WO2020142292A1 Method, system, apparatus for differential current injection
WO2020142291A1 Integrated thermal management of fiber coupled diode laser packaging
WO2020139708A1 Optical fiber devices and methods for reducing stimulated raman scattering (srs) light emissions from a resonant cavity
WO2020139707A1 Optical fiber devices and methods for reducing stimulated raman scattering (srs) light intensity in signal combined systems