Inventor · Livermore, CA, US

Earl R. Ault

20Patents
3h-index
19Co-inventors
60Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 5, 1974 → Feb 29, 2008

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6818854B2 Laser peening with fiber optic delivery Chemistry; Metallurgy 15 Expired
US5315610A System for controlling the flow of gas into and out of a gas laser Electricity 5 Expired
US6339608B1 Method for beam steering compensation in an ultra-high power liquid laser Electricity 4 Expired
US6438151B1 Device for wavefront correction in an ultra high power laser Electricity 3 Expired
US4773073A Injection locked oscillator system for pulsed metal vapor lasers Electricity 2 Expired
US7633980B1 Phase change based cooling for high burst mode heat loads with temperature regulation above the phase change temperature Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US3970964A High-power argon/nitrogen transfer laser Electricity 2 Expired
US4063192A Krypton fluoride excimer laser utilizing nitrogen trifluoride as a fluorine donor Electricity 2 Expired
US6931046B1 High power laser having a trivalent liquid host Electricity 2 Expired
US4225831A CW Scalable donor-acceptor gas transfer laser Electricity 2 Expired
US5341392A Longitudinal discharge laser electrodes Electricity 2 Expired
US4063191A Xenon fluoride laser utilizing nitrogen trifluoride as a fluorine donor Electricity 2 Expired
US4041415A Coaxial electron beam pumped laser Electricity 2 Expired
US6914926B2 High average power laser gain medium with low optical distortion using a transverse flowing liquid host Electricity 1 Expired
US5305346A Transverse-type laser assembly using induced electrical discharge excitation and method Electricity 1 Expired
US5319662A Longitudinal discharge laser baffles Electricity 1 Expired
US6600766B1 High average power laser using a transverse flowing liquid host Electricity 1 Expired
US5396513A Metal vapor laser including hot electrodes and integral wick Electricity 0 Expired
US5168393A Copper vapor laser modular packaging assembly Electricity 0 Expired
US7212558B2 Liquid heat capacity lasers Electricity 0 Expired

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