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European Space Agency

71Patents
61Active
71Granted
55Portfolio score

Filing activity: Dec 16, 1980 → Jul 3, 2023 · 8 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9153860B2 Mechanical support ring structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Active
US6922167B2 Hardware architecture for processing galileo alternate binary offset carrier (AltBOC) signals Physics 23 Expired
US10071485B2 Hand controller device Physics 17 Active
US4938814A High-performance propellant combinations for a rocket engine Chemistry; Metallurgy 10 Expired
US7463460B2 Arc quenching device for a solar array Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US4374579A Spacecraft configuration permitting a continuous three-axes attitude control Performing Operations; Transporting 9 Expired
US10088573B2 Navigation system using spreading codes based on pseudo-random noise sequences Electricity 8 Active
US9147921B2 Compact OMT device Electricity 7 Active
US7486717B2 Method and device for demodulating Galileo alternate binary offset carrier (Alt-BOC) signals Electricity 7 Active
US4950341A High-performance propellant combinations for a rocket engine Chemistry; Metallurgy 7 Expired
US8839585B2 Low weight, compactly deployable support structure Electricity 7 Active
US10207321B2 Manufacturing of a metal component or a metal matrix composite component involving contactless induction of high-frequency vibrations Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US9660351B2 Deployable antenna frame Electricity 6 Active
US9902018B2 Multi-wire feeder method and system for alloy sample formation and additive manufacturing Performing Operations; Transporting 6 Active
US6459093B1 Dynamic light scattering at multiple discrete wavelengths, using multiple mono-mode fibres or for detecting the velocity of scattering sensors Physics 5 Expired
US10270520B2 Joint transmitter signal processing in multi-beam satellite systems Electricity 5 Active
US8200430B2 Method and apparatus for providing integrity information for users of a global navigation system Physics 5 Active
US9494693B2 Method, apparatus, and system for determining a position of an object having a global navigation satellite system receiver by processing undifferenced data like carrier-phase measurements and external products like ionosphere data Physics 4 Active
US8885477B2 Method, device and system for compressing time series data Electricity 3 Active
US8090005B2 Spreading codes for a satellite navigation system Electricity 2 Active
US8346505B2 Method and apparatus for analyzing time series data Physics 2 Active
US7940376B2 Real time synthetic aperture radar processing system and method Physics 2 Expired
US10958286B2 Compression and decompression of fixed length data structures Electricity 2 Active
US8746903B2 Method for assembling a mirror plate stack Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US9468406B2 Dosimeter system Physics 2 Active

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