Patents imply intellectual property and it has a $ value that can be associated depending on the field and type of patent that is allocated. Patents also increase the enterprise value of the company and help prevent copy-cats from copying the idea without having royalt payments or licencing deals. We like it when companies get patents awarded!. To protect IP companies aggressively file provisional patents even before they have a working product. The below table provides a way to look at what has been done by companies and use this as a factor to make investment decisions.
| Title | Filing Date | Publication Date | Grant Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Optical element with heater layer | 2022-5-19 | 2022-11-24 | |
| Systems and methods for forming a mold-bonded lens | 2022-3-04 | 2022-12-22 | |
| Integrated optical assembly and manufacturing the same | 2021-3-16 | 2022-2-24 | |
| Systems and methods for molding chalcogenide glass into a near-net shaped part | 2021-1-29 | 2022-2-17 | |
| One optical design pattern/method of a cost effective ir lens | 2020-5-01 | 2021-3-18 | |
| Fiducials for precision optics molding | 2019-8-30 | 2021-3-04 | |
| High-Power Fused Collimator and Associated Methods | 2006-12-05 | 2007-8-23 | |
| Fiberoptic wavelength combiner | 2003-10-15 | 2005-4-21 | |
| Fiber-coupled vertical-cavity surface emitting laser | 2003-3-13 | 2003-10-02 | |
| Multiple lens molding system and method | 2002-9-06 | 2003-3-24 |