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Southwest Sciences Incorporated

38Patents
11Active
38Granted
45Portfolio score

Filing activity: May 18, 1988 → Jun 19, 2014 · 5 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4934816A Laser absorption detection enhancing apparatus and method Physics 71 Expired
US6219142A Method and apparatus for determining wave characteristics from wave phenomena Physics 65 Expired
US9869731B1 Wavelength-modulated coherence pumping and hyperfine repumping for an atomic magnetometer Physics 54 Active
US7142105B2 Fire alarm algorithm using smoke and gas sensors Physics 50 Expired
US6356350B1 Wavelength modulation spectroscopy with multiple harmonic detection Physics 48 Expired
US6618148B1 Acoustic resonance frequency locked photoacoustic spectrometer Physics 34 Expired
US6615142B1 Filtering to measure gas concentrations from spectral features Physics 32 Expired
US7800751B1 Dense pattern multiple pass cells Physics 29 Active
US6608683B1 Acoustic resonance phase locked photoacoustic spectrometer Physics 28 Expired
US5015848A Mass spectroscopic apparatus and method Electricity 28 Expired
US7079254B2 Method and apparatus for imaging internal structures of transparent and translucent materials Human Necessities 27 Expired
US7352464B2 Oxygen sensor for aircraft fuel inerting systems Physics 26 Expired
US7616316B1 Gas measurement over extreme dynamic range of concentrations Physics 25 Active
US6683895B2 Wavelength agile external cavity diode laser Electricity 18 Expired
US6351309B1 Dual modulation laser line-locking technique for wavelength modulation spectroscopy Physics 18 Expired
US5973782A Phaseless wavelength modulation spectroscopy Physics 15 Expired
US7790467B1 Diode laser based ketone and aldehyde detection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Active
US7710568B1 Portable natural gas leak detector Physics 14 Active
US6552792B1 Wavelength modulated photoacoustic spectrometer Physics 13 Expired
US6940599B1 Envelope functions for modulation spectroscopy Physics 13 Expired
US6611335B1 Tone burst diode laser spectroscopy Physics 12 Expired
US8421455B1 Pulsed free induction decay nonlinear magneto-optical rotation apparatus Physics 12 Active
US7307716B2 Near re-entrant dense pattern optical multipass cell Physics 12 Expired
US9518972B2 Methods for detecting bacterial infections Physics 11 Active
US6587258B1 Electro-optic electric field probe Physics 10 Expired

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