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VAISALA OYJ

125Patents
31Active
125Granted
47Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jul 22, 1975 → Jul 20, 2022 · 7 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5561523A Electrically tunable fabry-perot interferometer produced by surface micromechanical techniques for use in optical material analysis Physics 166 Expired
US4335613A Apparatus for indicating the freezing of the surface of an asphalt road, paved runway, or the like Physics 154 Expired
US5646729A Single-channel gas concentration measurement method and apparatus using a short-resonator Fabry-Perot interferometer Physics 151 Expired
US5644676A Thermal radiant source with filament encapsulated in protective film Electricity 123 Expired
US5801647A Method and apparatus for measuring road surface conditions Physics 79 Expired
US5010343A Method and device in the antenna and receiving system of a radio theodolite Physics 72 Expired
US6791311B2 Lightning detection and data acquisition system Physics 67 Expired
US5589689A Infrared detector with Fabry-Perot interferometer Physics 61 Expired
US6788043B2 Lightning detection and data acquisition system Physics 54 Expired
US5827438A Electrically modulatable thermal radiant source with specific filament Electricity 52 Expired
US4295091A Circuit for measuring low capacitances Physics 51 Expired
US5483414A Electrical impedance detector for measurement of physical quantities, in particular of temperature Physics 49 Expired
US5500569A Electrically modulatable thermal radiant source and method for manufacturing the same Electricity 47 Expired
US4609966A Absolute pressure transducer Electricity 41 Expired
US6868339B2 Systems and methods for time corrected lightning detection Physics 36 Expired
US4164868A Capacitive humidity transducer Physics 34 Expired
US5818586A Miniaturized fabry-perot spectrometer for optical analysis Physics 33 Expired
US5880836A Apparatus and method for measuring visibility and present weather Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US4628403A Capacitive detector for absolute pressure Physics 32 Expired
US6735525B1 Systems and methods for spectral corrected lightning detection Physics 30 Expired
US8448507B2 Method and device for detecting hydrometeors Physics 29 Active
US4594639A Capacitive pressure detector Physics 29 Expired
US7249502B2 Precipitation/hail sensor and method for precipitation rate measurement Physics 29 Expired
US4831492A Capacitor construction for use in pressure transducers Physics 27 Expired
US5641911A Method and apparatus for feedback-control of an asymmetric differential pressure transducer Physics 25 Expired

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