Inventor · Great Falls, VA, US

Phillip A. Sprangle

20Patents
10h-index
38Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 4, 1975 → Jan 16, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5353291A Laser synchrotron source (LSS) Electricity 37 Expired
US4143299A Charged-particle beam acceleration in a converging waveguide Electricity 29 Expired
US4224576A Gyrotron travelling-wave amplifier Electricity 24 Expired
US4331936A Free electron laser employing an expanded hollow intense electron beam and periodic radial magnetic field Electricity 15 Expired
US3958189A Stimulated coherent cyclotron scattering, millimeter, and submillimeter wave generator Electricity 14 Expired
US7970040B1 Apparatus for incoherent combining of high power lasers for long-range directed-energy applications Electricity 12 Active
US4370621A High efficiency gyrotron oscillator and amplifier Electricity 12 Expired
US8665923B2 Remotely induced atmospheric lasing Electricity 11 Active
US4150340A High-power microwaves from a non-isochronous reflecting electron system (NIRES) Electricity 11 Expired
US7260023B2 Remote underwater laser acoustic source Physics 11 Expired
US4362968A Slow-wave wideband cyclotron amplifier Electricity 8 Expired
US6137811A System for conditioning an electron beam for improved free-electron laser operation Electricity 3 Expired
US4481475A Betatron accelerator having high ratio of Budker parameter to relativistic factor Electricity 2 Expired
US5892810A X-ray source for lithography Electricity 2 Expired
US8351476B1 Quasi-remote laser pulse compression and generation of radiation and particle beams Electricity 1 Active
US8564224B2 High average current, high quality pulsed electron injector Electricity 0 Active
US7700929B2 Remote laser assisted biological aerosol standoff detection in atmosphere Physics 0 Active
US7683346B2 Remote laser assisted biological aerosol standoff detection in atmosphere Physics 0 Active
US9835761B2 Active remote detection of radioactivity based on electromagnetic signatures Physics 0 Active
US8369001B2 Compact high power terahertz radiation cell Physics 0 Active

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