Robert W. Byren
43Patents
16h-index
27Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 19, 1985 → Apr 9, 2019
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5974060A | Multi-mode laser oscillator with large intermode spacing | Electricity | 74 | Expired |
| US7626152B2 | Beam director and control system for a high energy laser within a conformal window | Physics | 45 | Active |
| US6809307B2 | System and method for effecting high-power beam control with adaptive optics in low power beam path | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US6690696B2 | Laser cooling apparatus and method | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US6765663B2 | Efficient multiple emitter boresight reference source | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US4812639A | Self-aligning phase conjugate laser | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US6014391A | Thermally improved slab laser pump cavity apparatus with integral concentrator and method of making same | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US6849841B2 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFECTING HIGH-POWER BEAM CONTROL WITH OUTGOING WAVEFRONT CORRECTION UTILIZING HOLOGRAPHIC SAMPLING AT PRIMARY MIRROR, PHASE CONJUGATION, AND ADAPTIVE OPTICS IN LOW POWER BEAM PATH | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5654831A | Refractive ellipsoid optical surface without spherical aberration | Electricity | 23 | 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 |
| US5636239A | Solid state optically pumped laser head | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US5974061A | Laser pump cavity apparatus with improved thermal lensing control, cooling, and fracture strength and method | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US4798462A | Auto-boresight technique for self-aligning phase conjugate laser | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US6055260A | Laser pump cavity apparatus with integral concentrator and method | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US4717822A | Rosette scanning surveillance sensor | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US8731013B2 | Linear adaptive optics system in low power beam path and method | Electricity | 17 | Active |
| US4853528A | Self-aligning phase conjugate laser | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US7041953B2 | Beam control system with extended beacon and method | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6961171B2 | Phase conjugate relay mirror apparatus for high energy laser system and method | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 12 | Expired |
| US7474332B2 | Synthetic aperture ladar system and method using real-time holography | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US6330256A | Method and apparatus for non-dispersive face-cooling of multi-crystal nonlinear optical devices | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US5272710A | Stress-free mounting and protection of liquid-cooled solid-state laser media | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US6996137B2 | Solid-state devices with radial dopant valence profile | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US6707603B2 | Apparatus and method to distort an optical beam to avoid ionization at an intermediate focus | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US8780182B2 | Imaging system and method using partial-coherence speckle interference tomography | Physics | 6 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.