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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

153Patents
104Active
153Granted
57Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 11, 1992 → May 31, 2023 · 22 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8736502B1 Conformal wide band surface wave radiating element Electricity 540 Active
US6768456B1 Electronically agile dual beam antenna system Electricity 247 Expired
US8736818B2 Electronically steered flash LIDAR Physics 189 Active
US7961301B2 Flash LADAR system Physics 115 Active
US9069061B1 LIDAR with analog memory Physics 114 Active
US9041915B2 Systems and methods of scene and action capture using imaging system incorporating 3D LIDAR Physics 100 Active
US7595765B1 Embedded surface wave antenna with improved frequency bandwidth and radiation performance Electricity 71 Active
US7265719B1 Packaging technique for antenna systems Electricity 68 Expired
US5821908A Spherical lens antenna having an electronically steerable beam Electricity 66 Expired
US5838282A Multi-frequency antenna Electricity 48 Expired
US6274093A Self-regulating hydrogen generator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 45 Expired
US8077294B1 Optical autocovariance lidar Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Active
US6822622B2 Electronically reconfigurable microwave lens and shutter using cascaded frequency selective surfaces and polyimide macro-electro-mechanical systems Electricity 38 Expired
US6278100A Synthetic guide star for on-orbit assembly and configuration of large earth remote sensing optical systems Physics 35 Expired
US6795020B2 Dual band coplanar microstrip interlaced array Electricity 34 Expired
US7277641B1 Multiple access space communications optical system using a common telescope aperture Electricity 34 Expired
US5822683A Pseudo-passive transponder device Physics 31 Expired
US6771218B1 Electronically agile multi-beam antenna Electricity 30 Expired
US5905465A Antenna system Electricity 29 Expired
US5982339A Antenna system utilizing a frequency selective surface Electricity 29 Expired
US8102330B1 Dual band circularly polarized feed Electricity 28 Active
US7012643B2 One chip, low light level color camera Electricity 28 Expired
US7796174B1 Hybrid imager Electricity 28 Active
US5898529A Deployable space-based telescope Electricity 27 Expired
US7359057B2 Method and apparatus for measuring small shifts in optical wavelengths Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.