Texas Tech University
58Patents
8Active
58Granted
42Portfolio score
Filing activity: Apr 27, 1989 → May 13, 2014 · 6 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6421467B1 | Adaptive vector quantization/quantizer | Physics | 101 | Expired |
| US6472588B1 | Transgenic cotton plants with altered fiber characteristics transformed with a sucrose phosphate synthase nucleic acid | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 101 | Expired |
| US6391748B1 | Method of epitaxial growth of high quality nitride layers on silicon substrates | Electricity | 81 | Expired |
| US5515453A | Apparatus and method for image processing in symbolic space | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US5696835A | Apparatus and method for aligning and measuring misregistration | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US7196124B2 | Elastomeric material compositions obtained from castor oil and epoxidized soybean oil | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 68 | Expired |
| US6381025B1 | Interferometric detection system and method | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US6563022B2 | Cotton plants with improved cotton fiber characteristics and method for producing cotton fibers from these cotton plants | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 61 | Expired |
| US5703969A | System and method for recognizing visual indicia | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US8351656B2 | Remote contactless stereoscopic mass estimation system | Physics | 31 | Active |
| US7098324B2 | Chitinase encoding DNA molecules from cotton expressed preferentially in secondary walled cells during secondary wall deposition and a corresponding promoter | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 27 | Expired |
| US6166294A | Cotton fiber tissue-specific genes | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 27 | Expired |
| US5932713A | Cotton fiber tissue-specific genes | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 26 | Expired |
| US6290592A | Method for processing an animal carcass and apparatus for providing electrical stimulation | Human Necessities | 25 | Expired |
| US6338856B1 | Seaweed supplement diet for enhancing immune response in mammals and poultry | Human Necessities | 25 | Expired |
| US6809828B2 | Universal detector for biological and chemical separations or assays using plastic microfluidic devices | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5028875A | Linear rotary differential capacitance transducer | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US6086736A | Electromigration injection from a microreservoir-electrode in capillary separation systems | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US7280722B2 | Temperature compensated optical multiplexer | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US6563021B1 | Production of cotton fiber with improved fiber characteristics | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Expired |
| US6306662A | Fingerprint development methods | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Expired |
| US6839663B1 | Haptic rendering of volumetric soft-bodies objects | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6705440B2 | Cable stay damper band and method of use for reduction of fluid induced cable vibrations | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 11 | Expired |
| US6962690B2 | Tissue specific fluorescent chelates possessing long wavelength UV excitation | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 10 | Expired |
| US5679514A | Method for determining the sex of birds | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 9 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.