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David E. Spence — 10 Patents

SLSpectra Physics Lasers: 5 patents #6 of 59Top 15%
NENewport: 4 patents #14 of 148Top 10%
SPSpectra-Physics: 1 patents #113 of 257Top 45%
San Jose, CA: #6,421 of 32,062 inventorsTop 25%
California: #61,378 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
David E. Spence has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Spectra Physics Lasers. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in July 2023. David E. Spence ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list David E. Spence in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2001.peak 22000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042014: 1 patents20142018: 1 patents20182020: 1 patents20202023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11705688 Laser system having a multi-stage amplifier and methods of use Bor-Chyuan Hwang, Curtis Rettig, Thomas Sosnowski, Georg Wien, Victor Terpugoff +1 more 2023-07-18
10784646 Laser system having a multi-stage amplifier and methods of use Bor-Chyuan Hwang, Curtis Rettig, Thomas Sosnowski, Georg Wein, Victor Terpugoff +1 more 2020-09-22
10014652 Broadly tunable optical parametric oscillator James D. Kafka, James B. Clark, Ching-Yuan Chien, Yujun Deng, Andrei C. Florean 2018-07-03
8902939 Broadly tunable optical parametric oscillator James D. Kafka, Ching-Yuan Chien, Yujun Deng, Andrei C. Florean, Jianping Zhou 2014-12-02 $4,713,000
6822978 Remote UV laser system and methods of use James D. Kafka 2004-11-23
6504858 Lasers with low doped gain medium Emily Cheng, Dave R Dudley, William L. Nighan, Jr., James D. Kafka, David S. Bell 2003-01-07
6389198 Photonic crystal fiber system for sub-picosecond pulses James D. Kafka 2002-05-14
6236779 Photonic crystal fiber system for sub-picosecond pulses James D. Kafka 2001-05-22 $9,939,000
6185235 Lasers with low doped gain medium Emily Cheng, Dave R Dudley, William L. Nighan, Jr., James D. Kafka, David S. Bell 2001-02-06 $16,929,000
6021140 Polarization based mode-locking of a laser James B. Clark, Richard Boggy, James D. Kafka 2000-02-01 $16,235,000