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Michael Gould — 43 Patents

LILightmatter: 32 patents #4 of 50Top 8%
IBM: 6 patents #16,491 of 70,183Top 25%
ANAnaplan: 2 patents #4 of 36Top 15%
CICognos Incorporated: 1 patents #13 of 61Top 25%
La Honda, CA: #4 of 85 inventorsTop 5%
California: #10,282 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
Michael Gould has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lightmatter. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in November 2025. Michael Gould ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Michael Gould in La Honda, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2024.peak 82004: 1 patents20042006: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082010: 1 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172020: 1 patents2021: 6 patents20212022: 3 patents2023: 7 patents20232024: 8 patents2025: 8 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12470304 Photonic communication platform and related circuits Carlos Dorta-Quinones, Ryan Braid, Anthony Kopa, Nathaniel Bowman, Karl C. Buckenmaier +5 more 2025-11-11
12425119 Systems and methods for utilizing photonic degrees of freedom in a photonic processor Darius Bunandar, Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey 2025-09-23
12401427 Photonic communication platform and related architectures, systems and methods Carlos Dorta-Quinones, Mykhailo Tymchenko, Anthony Kopa, Bradford Turcott, Robert Turner +5 more 2025-08-26
12374855 Fiber-coupled laser light source Shashank Gupta, James Carr, Nicholas C. Harris, Sven Mahnkopf, David R. Demmer 2025-07-29
12332479 Photonic communication platform Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid +1 more 2025-06-17
12314076 Fast prediction processor Carl Ramey, Nicholas C. Harris, Darius Bunandar 2025-05-27
12244354 Systems and methods for analog computing using a linear photonic processor Darius Bunandar, Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Tomo Lazovich 2025-03-04
12206220 Photonics processor architecture Nicholas C. Harris, Anthony Kopa, Carl Ramey, Darius Bunandar 2025-01-21
12124082 Photonic communication platform Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid +1 more 2024-10-22
12124081 Photonic communication platform Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid +1 more 2024-10-22
12092866 Photonic communication platform Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid +1 more 2024-09-17
12092867 Photonic communication platform Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid +1 more 2024-09-17
12038604 Photonic communication platform Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid +1 more 2024-07-16
12038777 Fast prediction processor Carl Ramey, Nicholas C. Harris, Darius Bunandar 2024-07-16
11936434 Systems and methods for analog computing using a linear photonic processor Darius Bunandar, Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Tomo Lazovich 2024-03-19
11860413 Photonic communication platform Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid +1 more 2024-01-02
11768662 Linear photonic processors and related methods Nicholas C. Harris, Darius Bunandar, Carl Ramey, Shashank Gupta, Carlos Dorta-Quinones 2023-09-26
11754783 Photonic communication platform Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid +1 more 2023-09-12
11709520 Path-number-balanced universal photonic network Darius Bunandar, Martin B. Z. Forsythe, Tomo Lazovich 2023-07-25
11700078 Systems and methods for utilizing photonic degrees of freedom in a photonic processor Darius Bunandar, Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey 2023-07-11
11695378 Optical differential low-noise receivers and related methods Nicholas C. Harris, Omer O. Yildirim 2023-07-04
11671182 Systems and methods for analog computing using a linear photonic processor Darius Bunandar, Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Tomo Lazovich 2023-06-06
11609742 Linear photonic processors and related methods Nicholas C. Harris, Darius Bunandar, Carl Ramey, Shashank Gupta, Carlos Dorta-Quinones 2023-03-21
11398871 Systems and methods for analog computing using a linear photonic processor Darius Bunandar, Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Tomo Lazovich 2022-07-26
11281068 High-efficiency multi-slot waveguide nano-opto-electromechanical phase modulator — 2022-03-22

Frequent Collaborators

Nicholas C. Harris29 shared
Darius Bunandar27 shared
Carl Ramey23 shared
Mykhailo Tymchenko10 shared
Ryan Braid10 shared
Thomas Graham9 shared

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