Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
4,053Patents
3,478Active
4,053Granted
63Portfolio score
Filing activity: Mar 18, 1976 → May 8, 2025 · 575 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6358459B1 | Method for the production of molded bodies from polymer foam particles | Performing Operations; Transporting | 962 | Expired |
| US6508787B2 | System for actively supporting the flow of body fluids | Human Necessities | 301 | Expired |
| US5877034A | Method of making a three-dimensional integrated circuit | Electricity | 233 | Expired |
| US6351130B1 | Device for testing solar home systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 223 | Expired |
| US7706634B2 | Method and camera (apparatus) for optically capturing a screen | Electricity | 213 | Active |
| US6215093A | Selective laser sintering at melting temperature | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 189 | Expired |
| US5579430A | Digital encoding process | Electricity | 186 | Expired |
| US6583379B1 | Process chamber for selective laser fusion | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 165 | Expired |
| US5681024A | Microvalve | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 157 | Expired |
| US5919220A | Cuff electrode | Human Necessities | 156 | Expired |
| US7447317B2 | Compatible multi-channel coding/decoding by weighting the downmix channel | Electricity | 149 | Expired |
| US6754822B1 | Active watermarks and watermark agents | Physics | 147 | Expired |
| US7379608B2 | Arithmetic coding for transforming video and picture data units | Electricity | 141 | Active |
| US6584138B1 | Coding process for inserting an inaudible data signal into an audio signal, decoding process, coder and decoder | Electricity | 134 | Expired |
| US7979069B2 | Mobile device and base station for a communication protocol with normal login and temporary login | Electricity | 126 | Active |
| US8315396B2 | Apparatus and method for generating audio output signals using object based metadata | Electricity | 124 | Active |
| US10138354B2 | Polymer composition having delayed crystallization behavior, additive composition that influences the crystallization behavior, method for reducing the crystallization point and/or the crystallization speed, and use of an additive composition | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 117 | Active |
| US5377106A | Process for navigating an unmanned vehicle and a vehicle for the same | Physics | 114 | Expired |
| US6341165B1 | Coding and decoding of audio signals by using intensity stereo and prediction processes | Physics | 107 | Expired |
| US6168395A | Bistable microactuator with coupled membranes | Electricity | 106 | Expired |
| US6768301B1 | Hall sensor array for measuring a magnetic field with offset compensation | Physics | 106 | Expired |
| US6803928B2 | Extended virtual table: an optical extension for table-like projection systems | Physics | 102 | Expired |
| US7702013B2 | Method and arrangement for coding transform coefficients in picture and/or video coders and decoders and a corresponding computer program and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium | Electricity | 101 | Active |
| US8629930B2 | Device, image processing device and method for optical imaging | Physics | 99 | Active |
| US6900748B2 | Method and apparatus for binarization and arithmetic coding of a data value | Electricity | 98 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.