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Roy C. Litz — 9 Patents

CICiena: 9 patents #115 of 1,406Top 9%
Freeland, MD: #1 of 19 inventorsTop 6%
Maryland: #3,598 of 35,612 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Roy C. Litz has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ciena. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in November 2015. Roy C. Litz ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Roy C. Litz in Freeland, MD, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1998.peak 21998: 2 patents19982001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents20122015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9191117 High-speed optical transponder systems Stephen B. Alexander, Michael Y. Frankel, Steve W. Chaddick, Cecil D. Smith 2015-11-17 $10,013,000
8306424 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Cecil D. Smith 2012-11-06 $1,934,000
7809270 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Cecil D. Smith 2010-10-05 $2,948,000
7369780 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Cecil D. Smith 2008-05-06 $10,949,000
6618176 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Cecil D. Smith 2003-09-09 $30,540,000
6344915 System and method for shutting off an optical energy source in a communication system having optical amplifiers Stephen B. Alexander, Cecil D. Smith, Robert Corwin, John Lynn Shanton, III, Donald T. Newman 2002-02-05 $81,833,000
6233077 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Cecil D. Smith 2001-05-15 $244,822,000
5784184 WDM Optical communication systems with remodulators and remodulating channel selectors Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Cecil D. Smith 1998-07-21 $126,710,000
5715076 Remodulating channel selectors for WDM optical communication systems Stephen B. Alexander, Steve W. Chaddick, Cecil D. Smith 1998-02-03 $89,036,000