Inventor · Concord, NH, US

Alan Ford

15Patents
6h-index
14Co-inventors
63Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 19, 1996 → Feb 2, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5681285A Infusion pump with an electronically loadable drug library and a user interface for loading the library Human Necessities 859 Expired
US6269340A Infusion pump with an electronically loadable drug library and a user interface for loading the library Human Necessities 611 Expired
US7471994B2 Infusion pump with an electronically loadable drug library and label reader Human Necessities 320 Expired
US7334258B1 Configuration file download enforcement Electricity 24 Expired
US7711826B2 Remote survivable DHCP for a DHCP relay agent Electricity 9 Active
US8654709B2 Decentrallizing core network functionalities Electricity 7 Active
US8224936B2 Configuration file override Electricity 6 Active
US8335917B2 System for binding a device to a gateway to regulate service theft through cloning Electricity 1 Active
US7986690B2 Inter-gateway cloned device detector using provisioning request analysis Electricity 1 Active
US9599970B2 Safety critical control system that includes control logic or machine readable instructions that selectively locks or enables the control system based on one or more machine implemented state machines that includes states associated with detection or matching of one or more predetermined signals on distinct conduction paths between elements of the control system and related methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US9491789B2 Decentralizing core network functionalities Electricity 1 Active
US10508055B2 Safety critical control system that includes control logic or machine readable instructions that selectively locks or enables the control system based on one or more machine implemented state machines that includes states associated with detection or matching of one or more predetermined signals on distinct conduction paths between elements of the control system and related methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US8365255B1 Configuration file download enforcement Electricity 0 Active
US8473589B2 Configuration file override Electricity 0 Active
US9794970B2 Decentralizing core network functionalities Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.