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Sheldon McLaughlin — 25 Patents

LOLumentum Operations: 14 patents #11 of 299Top 4%
JUJds Uniphase: 10 patents #35 of 940Top 4%
Ottawa, CA: #201 of 6,399 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #158,593 of 4,157,543Top 4%
25 Patents All Time
Sheldon McLaughlin has been granted 25 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lumentum Operations. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in November 2022. Sheldon McLaughlin ranks #158,593 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.8%). Patent records list Sheldon McLaughlin in Ottawa, ON, CA.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2018.peak 42004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 1 patents20192021: 2 patents2022: 2 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 25 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11489311 Optical amplifier Guansan Chen 2022-11-01
11448829 M×N wavelength selective switch with compressed port spacing 2022-09-20
11079551 Liquid crystal on silicon element for dual-functionality beam steering in wavelength selective switches Peter David Roorda, Paul Colbourne 2021-08-03
10923875 Integrated component for an optical amplifier Jiamin Zheng, Barrie Keyworth, Paul Colbourne, Dhanorm Plumwongrot, Gareth Jones 2021-02-16
10461493 Wavelength locker using multiple feedback curves to wavelength lock a beam Wei Xiong, Michael C. Larson, Paul Colbourne 2019-10-29
10135559 M×N wavelength selective switch for high degree count Paul Colbourne 2018-11-20
10061083 Wavelength dispersing device 2018-08-28
10050405 Wavelength locker using multiple feedback curves to wavelength lock a beam Wei Xiong, Michael C. Larson, Paul Colbourne 2018-08-14
10031397 Method and controller for operating a variable optical retarder and an array Josh P. KEMP, Thomas Friessnegg 2018-07-24
9563021 Optical switching device Abdul Jaleel K. Moidu, Nenad Duricic 2017-02-07
9551900 Method and controller for operating a variable optical retarder and an array Josh P. KEMP, Thomas Friessnegg 2017-01-24
9548834 Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexor and optical switching node Peter David Roorda 2017-01-17
9354365 Wavelength dispersing device 2016-05-31
9250391 Multicast optical switch Peter David Roorda, Paul Colbourne, Barrie Keyworth 2016-02-02
9160478 Reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexor and optical switching node Peter David Roorda 2015-10-13 $9,014,000
9069139 Multicast optical switch Peter David Roorda, Paul Colbourne, Barrie Keyworth 2015-06-30 $8,495,000
8977079 WSS with high port isolation and close spaced ports 2015-03-10 $12,695,000
8391709 MxN wavelength selective switch Paul Colbourne, Stephen Robert de Hennin, Pierre D. Wall 2013-03-05 $33,288,000
8233794 Hitless MxN wavelength selective switch Paul Colbourne, Stephen Robert de Hennin, Pierre D. Wall 2012-07-31
8036502 Stress free mounting of optical bench for WSS Nenad Duricic, Pierre D. Wall 2011-10-11 $33,093,000
7676126 Optical device with non-equally spaced output ports Pierre D. Wall 2010-03-09 $14,398,000
7630599 Wavelength dispersive device with temperature compensation Chester Murley 2009-12-08 $12,918,000
7184665 Tunable dispersion compensator Valentine N. Morozov, Thomas Ducellier 2007-02-27 $13,451,000
6870679 Multi-pass configurations Geoff Randall, Paul Colbourne, David Moss, Michael R. E. Lamont 2005-03-22 $4,966,000
6711311 Polarization beam splitter or combiner Vincent Delisle, Gonzalo Wills, Pierre D. Wall, Alan Hnatiw, Yihao Cheng +1 more 2004-03-23 $23,002,000