Inventor · Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, US

Duane D. Smith

17Patents
9h-index
31Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 24, 1991 → Aug 15, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5257085A Spectrally dispersive imaging lidar system Physics 68 Expired
US7405834B1 Compensated coherent imaging for improved imaging and directed energy weapons applications Physics 50 Active
US5450125A Spectrally dispersive imaging lidar system Physics 34 Expired
US7193771B1 Power scalable optical systems for generating, transporting, and delivering high power, high quality laser beams Electricity 34 Expired
US7042631B2 Power scalable optical systems for generating, transporting, and delivering high power, high quality, laser beams Electricity 29 Expired
US8913894B2 High-bandwidth optical communications relay architecture Electricity 24 Active
US5384589A Spectrally dispersive imaging lidar system Physics 22 Expired
US8939081B1 Ladar backtracking of wake turbulence trailing an airborne target for point-of-origin estimation and target classification Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Active
US6894828B2 Power scalable waveguide amplifier and laser devices Electricity 13 Expired
US6556339B2 Noncollinearly pumped solid state Raman laser Electricity 9 Expired
US11476576B2 Photonic integrated circuit-based communication transmit/receive system Electricity 4 Active
US8953946B2 High-bandwidth optical communications relay payload Electricity 2 Active
US9077449B2 High-bandwidth optical communications relay architecture Electricity 2 Active
US9766262B2 System and method for measuring doppler effect utilizing elastic and inelastic light scattering Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US10267997B2 Infrared scene projector with per-pixel spectral and polarisation capability Physics 0 Active
US11962346B2 Photonic integrated circuit (PIC)-based optical phased array with integrated gyroscopic sensor Electricity 0 Active
US12088343B2 Photonic integrated circuit-based polarization-independent optical devices Physics 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.