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North American Philips Corporation

955Patents
0Active
955Granted
45Portfolio score

Filing activity: Mar 18, 1974 → Nov 20, 1996

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4652820A Combined position sensor and magnetic motor or bearing Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 1,183 Expired
US5223924A System and method for automatically correlating user preferences with a T.V. program information database Electricity 883 Expired
US5047867A Interface for a TV-VCR system Electricity 679 Expired
US5404082A High frequency inverter with power-line-controlled frequency modulation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 593 Expired
US5233423A Embedded commericals within a television receiver using an integrated electronic billboard Electricity 382 Expired
US5633951A Registration of volumetric images which are relatively elastically deformed by matching surfaces Electricity 249 Expired
US5291289A Method and apparatus for transmission and reception of a digital television signal using multicarrier modulation Electricity 217 Expired
US5432561A System for automatically activating picture-in-picture when an auxiliary signal is detected Electricity 205 Expired
US5166956A Data transmission system and apparatus providing multi-level differential signal transmission Electricity 196 Expired
US4071430A Electrophoretic image display having an improved switching time Physics 179 Expired
US5134464A Method and apparatus for the transmission and reception of a multicarrier digital television signal Electricity 173 Expired
US4300150A Lateral double-diffused MOS transistor device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 172 Expired
US4522472A Electrophoretic image display with reduced drives and leads Physics 169 Expired
US4900136A Method of metallizing silica-containing gel and solid state light modulator incorporating the metallized gel Chemistry; Metallurgy 155 Expired
US4203106A X-Y addressable electrophoretic display device with control electrode Physics 146 Expired
US5128758A Method and apparatus for digitally processing a high definition television augmentation signal Electricity 138 Expired
US4864390A Display system with equal path lengths Physics 134 Expired
US4365130A Vented membrane switch with contaminant scavenger Electricity 132 Expired
US5410370A Single panel color projection video display improved scanning Physics 132 Expired
US5416514A Single panel color projection video display having control circuitry for synchronizing the color illumination system with reading/writing of the light valve Physics 128 Expired
US4959719A Picture-in-picture television receiver control Electricity 127 Expired
US4639761A Combined bipolar-field effect transistor resurf devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 127 Expired
US5368033A Magnetic resonance angiography method and apparatus employing an integration projection Physics 121 Expired
US4952849A Fluorescent lamp controllers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 117 Expired
US4700113A Variable high frequency ballast circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 116 Expired

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