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Luna Innovations Incorporated

84Patents
51Active
84Granted
53Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 16, 1998 → Mar 30, 2023 · 24 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7772541B2 Fiber optic position and/or shape sensing based on rayleigh scatter Human Necessities 293 Active
US7781724B2 Fiber optic position and shape sensing device and method relating thereto Physics 210 Active
US6275628A Single-ended long period grating optical device Physics 163 Expired
US6671055B1 Interferometric sensors utilizing bulk sensing mediums extrinsic to the input/output optical fiber Physics 152 Expired
US7042573B2 Apparatus and method for the complete characterization of optical devices including loss, birefringence and dispersion effects Physics 144 Expired
US6366722B1 Optical waveguide sensors having high refractive index sensitivity Physics 132 Expired
US6426796B1 Fiber optic wall shear stress sensor Physics 108 Expired
US7440087B2 Identifying optical fiber segments and determining characteristics of an optical device under test based on fiber segment scatter pattern data Physics 95 Expired
US6898337B2 Fiber-optic apparatus and method for making simultaneous multiple parameter measurements Physics 89 Expired
US7515276B2 High resolution interferometric optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) beyond the laser coherence length Physics 84 Active
US6571639B1 Fiber optic system Physics 83 Expired
US6270946A Non-lithographic process for producing nanoscale features on a substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 75 Expired
US7154081B1 Composite structures, such as coated wiring assemblies, having integral fiber optic-based condition detectors and systems which employ the same Physics 70 Expired
US6035082A Process for preparing an optical fiber sensor with enhanced sensitivity Physics 69 Expired
US6429421B1 Flexible fiber optic microbend device, with interlocking flexible fibers, sensors, and method use Physics 68 Expired
US6343168B1 Optical sensor arrangement Physics 65 Expired
US7538883B2 Distributed strain and temperature discrimination in polarization maintaining fiber Physics 55 Active
US7330245B2 Calculation of birefringence in a waveguide based on Rayleigh scatter Physics 54 Expired
US7454972B2 Method and apparatus for acoustically weighing moving loads Physics 47 Active
US6965708B2 Devices, systems, and methods for sensing moisture Physics 40 Expired
US6987897B2 Fiber-optic flow cell and method relating thereto Physics 39 Expired
US7018709B2 Contamination-resistant coated substrates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Expired
US6215943A Optical fiber holder Physics 35 Expired
US8531655B2 Compensating for non-ideal multi-core optical fiber structure Physics 35 Active
US7561276B2 Demodulation method and apparatus for fiber optic sensors Physics 32 Active

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