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Fausto Meli — 42 Patents

Cisco: 15 patents #864 of 13,007Top 7%
PSPirelli Cavi S.P.A.: 14 patents #2 of 66Top 4%
PSPirelli Cavi E Sistemi S.P.A.: 5 patents #14 of 176Top 8%
COCorning O.T.I.: 3 patents #1 of 21Top 5%
AVAvanex: 1 patents #94 of 269Top 35%
CSCorning O.T.I. Spa: 1 patents #7 of 26Top 30%
PSPirelli S.P.A.: 1 patents #7 of 41Top 20%
Piacenza, IT: #3 of 145 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Fausto Meli has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in May 2017. Fausto Meli ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Fausto Meli in Piacenza, IT.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 1998.peak 51997: 3 patents19971998: 5 patents1999: 5 patents19992000: 3 patents2001: 4 patents20012002: 3 patents2003: 5 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 3 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 3 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9640938 Optical amplifier and related method Aldo Righetti, Giorgio Grasso 2017-05-02
9124362 Optical amplification stage for OTDR monitoring and related method and system for OTDR monitoring of an optical communication link Giorgio Grasso, Andrea Melloni, Aldo Righetti 2015-09-01
7809268 Integrated optical service channel and quantum key distribution channel Gabriele Maria Galimberti 2010-10-05 $20,445,000
7706643 Low loss, noise filtering multiplexer/demultiplexer for reconfigurable OADMs Valerio Viscardi 2010-04-27 $18,332,000
7692850 Lumped-Raman amplification structure for very wideband applications Rosanna Pastorelli, Roberta Castagnetti 2010-04-06 $21,038,000
7542634 Low loss, noise filtering multiplexer/demultiplexer for reconfigurable OADMs Valerio Viscardi 2009-06-02 $39,146,000
7512336 Optical failure detection using polarization Valerio Viscardi 2009-03-31 $44,749,000
7359634 Light color recognition for optical connection verification 2008-04-15 $49,751,000
7181095 Low loss, noise filtering multiplexer/demultiplexer for reconfigurable OADMs Valerio Viscardi 2007-02-20 $51,783,000
7054059 Lumped Raman amplification structure for very wideband applications Rosanna Pastorelli, Roberta Castagnetti 2006-05-30 $42,709,000
7035545 Bidirectional multichannel optical telecommunication system Marcos Antonio Brandão Sanches 2006-04-25 $3,408,000
7006281 Shared variable gain amplifier for WDM channel equalization Roberta Castagnetti, Giorgio Grasso 2006-02-28 $28,418,000
6961522 Automatic raman gain and tilt control for ultra-long-distance dense WDM optical communication system Roberta Castagnetti, Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Giorgio Grasso, Giovanni Sacchi 2005-11-01 $47,339,000
6697193 Shared variable gain amplifier for WDM channel equalization Roberta Castagnetti, Giorgio Grasso 2004-02-24 $101,243,000
6668139 Bidirectional multichannel optical telecommunication system Marcos Brandão Sanches 2003-12-23
6657777 Interleaved lumped raman amplifier structure based on highly nonlinear fibers for densely spaced WDM channels Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Giovanni Sacchi 2003-12-02 $69,230,000
6646786 Copropagating Raman pump unit to suppress four-wave mixing crosstalk between pump modes and WDM signals Fabrizio Di Pasquale 2003-11-11 $331,051,000
6621626 Modular optical amplifier structure for highly dense interleaved WDM systems Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Giovanni Sacchi 2003-09-16 $152,842,000
6556346 Optical amplifying unit and optical transmission system Fabrizio Di Pasquale, Giovanni Sacchi, Silvia Turolla 2003-04-29
6456406 Transparent optical self-healing-ring communication network Fulvio Arecco, Marcos Brandao Sanches 2002-09-24
6437888 Device for adding and dropping optical signals Giorgio Grasso, Marcos Antonio Brandão Sanches, Mario Tamburello 2002-08-20
6414769 Bidirectional multichannel optical telecommunication system Marcos Antonio Brandão Sanches 2002-07-02
6332722 Method for optically connecting optical components in an optoelectronic rig, and optoelectronic rig constructed according to this method Gianfranco Mozzati 2001-12-25
6295149 System and method of telecommunication with wavelength division multiplexing comprising a demultiplexer 2001-09-25
6288810 Device for adding and dropping optical signals Giorgio Grasso, Marcos Antonio Brandão Sanches, Mario Tamburello 2001-09-11