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
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.