Patent assignee · US · COMPANY

Comsat, Inc.

102Patents
3Active
102Granted
44Portfolio score

Filing activity: Jun 23, 1988 → Oct 8, 2019 · 1 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5375146A Digital frequency conversion and tuning scheme for microwave radio receivers and transmitters Electricity 244 Expired
US5293449A Analysis-by-synthesis 2,4 kbps linear predictive speech codec Physics 154 Expired
US5640416A Digital downconverter/despreader for direct sequence spread spectrum communications system Electricity 136 Expired
US5534877A Orthogonally polarized dual-band printed circuit antenna employing radiating elements capacitively coupled to feedlines Electricity 123 Expired
US5307441A Wear-toll quality 4.8 kbps speech codec Physics 116 Expired
US5142224A Non-destructive semiconductor wafer probing system using laser pulses to generate and detect millimeter wave signals Physics 113 Expired
US6963570B1 Method and apparatus for adaptive loss-less compression of cell/packet headers Electricity 110 Expired
US6052364A CDMA system architecture for satcom terminals Electricity 97 Expired
US6477669B1 Method and apparatus for adaptive control of forward error correction codes Electricity 88 Expired
US5063177A Method of packaging microwave semiconductor components and integrated circuits Electricity 86 Expired
US5453799A Unified motion estimation architecture Electricity 81 Expired
US5394439A Bisdn compatible modem codec for digital information communication system Electricity 73 Expired
US6819658B1 Method and apparatus for segmentation, reassembly and inverse multiplexing of packets and ATM cells over satellite/wireless networks Electricity 66 Expired
US5600653A Technique for improving asynchronous transfer mode operation over a communications link with bursty bit errors Electricity 64 Expired
US5487086A Transform vector quantization for adaptive predictive coding Physics 63 Expired
US5354630A Ni-H.sub.2 battery having improved thermal properties Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 62 Expired
US5481561A Fully meshed CDMA network for personal communications terminals Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 59 Expired
US5272446A Digitally implemented fast frequency estimator/demodulator for low bit rate maritime and mobile data communications without the use of an acquisition preamble Electricity 58 Expired
US5696796A Continuously variable if sampling method for digital data transmission Electricity 56 Expired
US5533052A Adaptive predictive coding with transform domain quantization based on block size adaptation, backward adaptive power gain control, split bit-allocation and zero input response compensation Physics 55 Expired
US5889821A Low noise front-end blanking and interleaving for satellite reception in pulsed interference environments Electricity 51 Expired
US5226044A Low-rate encoding/digital speech interpolation system Electricity 48 Expired
US5070400A Pay-tv time purchase scheme Electricity 47 Expired
US6141372A Digital downconverter/despreader for direct sequence spread spectrum CDMA communications system Electricity 46 Expired
US6810377B1 Lost frame recovery techniques for parametric, LPC-based speech coding systems Physics 45 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.