Alan Ford
15Patents
6h-index
14Co-inventors
63Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 19, 1996 → Feb 2, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.