Agence Spatiale Europeenne
204Patents
50Active
204Granted
47Portfolio score
Filing activity: Apr 8, 1981 → Feb 19, 2015 · 30 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6259234A | Converter module for an electrical power supply and a system including it | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 235 | Expired |
| US5327455A | Method and device for multiplexing data signals | Electricity | 199 | Expired |
| US5765098A | Method and system for transmitting radio signals between a fixed terrestrial station and user mobile terminals via a network of satellites | Electricity | 181 | Expired |
| US5115248A | Multibeam antenna feed device | Electricity | 135 | Expired |
| US5061943A | Planar array antenna, comprising coplanar waveguide printed feed lines cooperating with apertures in a ground plane | Electricity | 128 | Expired |
| US5630227A | Satellite receiver having analog-to-digital converter demodulation | Electricity | 114 | Expired |
| US6069583A | Receiver for a navigation system, in particular a satellite navigation system | Physics | 112 | Expired |
| US5839053A | System for transmitting radio signals from mobile terminals to provide space diversity for uplink signals via geostationary communication satellites | Electricity | 74 | Expired |
| US6085871A | Lubrication system for a mechanism, in particular for a rotary bearing in a spacecraft | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 73 | Expired |
| US6307502A | Radiometry system with an aperture synthesis type antenna and its application to hyper-frequency imaging | Electricity | 70 | Expired |
| US5151706A | Apparatus for electronically controlling the radiation pattern of an antenna having one or more beams of variable width and/or direction | Electricity | 69 | Expired |
| US4718066A | Self-adaptive hybrid data transmission | Electricity | 64 | Expired |
| US5327467A | Code distribution multiple access communication system with user voice activated carrier and code synchronization | Electricity | 48 | Expired |
| US5929804A | Reconfigurable zonal beam forming system for an antenna on a satellite in orbit and method of optimizing reconfiguration | Electricity | 48 | Expired |
| US5542988A | Photocell, its method of manufacture, and a solar panel comprising such cells | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 46 | Expired |
| US5872545A | Planar microwave receive and/or transmit array antenna and application thereof to reception from geostationary television satellites | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US5297136A | Multicarrier demodulator | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US5239161A | Plasma flux spraying method of treating the surface of a substrate, for example, and apparatus for implementing the method | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US7123663B2 | Coded digital modulation method for communication system | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US4529927A | Apparatus for the control of a switched power regulator | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US5729444A | High-efficiency DC-DC converter | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 32 | Expired |
| US5546087A | Altimetry method | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US4647938A | Double grid reflector antenna | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US4684285A | Releasable connector apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 30 | Expired |
| US5648784A | procedure for controlling a scanning antenna | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.