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Percentage of closing price at which employees can purchase common stock under the ESPP.

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Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Useful life of finite-lived intangible assets, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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Present value of lessee's discounted obligation for lease payments from operating lease.

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Amount of lessee's right to use underlying asset under operating lease.

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Discount rate from fair value on purchase date that participants pay for shares.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Recent Accounting Pronouncements - Additional Information (Detail) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) Segment	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017	Jan. 01, 2019 USD ($)
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Number of operating segments \| Segment	1
Right-of-use assets	$ 37,933			$ 42,500
Operating lease liabilities	$ 55,566			$ 60,100
Employee Stock Purchase Plan [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Percentage of closing price of common stock	85.00%
Percentage of discount recognized on graded-vesting based on stock-based compensation expense over the purchase period	15.00%
Patents [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Initial term of patents	20 years
Product Revenues [Member] \| Customer One [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Concentration of credit risk percentage	43.00%	42.00%	47.00%
Product Revenues [Member] \| Customer Two [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Concentration of credit risk percentage	41.00%	38.00%	34.00%
Product Revenues [Member] \| Customer Three [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Concentration of credit risk percentage	13.00%	18.00%	19.00%
Accounts Receivable [Member] \| Customer One [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Concentration of credit risk percentage	45.00%	51.00%
Accounts Receivable [Member] \| Customer Two [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Concentration of credit risk percentage	37.00%	28.00%
Accounts Receivable [Member] \| Customer Three [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Concentration of credit risk percentage	11.00%	10.00%
Minimum [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Accounts receivable payment term	60 days
Maximum [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Accounts receivable payment term	91 days
Outside of U.S. [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Accounts receivable payment term	45 days
Outside of U.S. [Member] \| Maximum [Member]
Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]
Accounts receivable payment term	150 days