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Agence Spatiale Europeenne

204Patents
50Active
204Granted
47Portfolio score

Filing activity: Apr 8, 1981 → Feb 19, 2015 · 30 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.