Inventor · McLean, VA, US

Alexander E. Smith

45Patents
20h-index
25Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 11, 1998 → Jul 15, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8031062B2 Method and apparatus to improve vehicle situational awareness at intersections Physics 200 Active
US6094169A Multilateration auto-calibration and position error correction Physics 65 Expired
US7423590B2 Method and apparatus for improving ADS-B security Physics 63 Active
US7782256B2 Enhanced passive coherent location techniques to track and identify UAVs, UCAVs, MAVs, and other objects Electricity 50 Active
US6992626B2 Method and apparatus to correlate aircraft flight tracks and events with relevant airport operations information Physics 50 Expired
US6384783B1 Method and apparatus for correlating flight identification data with secondary surveillance Physics 45 Expired
US7132982B2 Method and apparatus for accurate aircraft and vehicle tracking Physics 42 Expired
US6448929B1 Method and apparatus for correlating flight identification data with secondary surveillance radar data Physics 40 Expired
US6885340B2 Correlation of flight track data with other data sources Physics 39 Expired
US7126534B2 Minimum safe altitude warning Physics 38 Expired
US6633259B1 Method and apparatus for improving utility of automatic dependent surveillance Physics 36 Expired
US7612716B2 Correlation of flight track data with other data sources Physics 34 Active
US7123192B2 Correlation of flight track data with other data sources Physics 33 Expired
US6567043B2 Method and apparatus for improving utility of automatic dependent surveillance Physics 29 Expired
US6812890B2 Voice recognition landing fee billing system Physics 26 Expired
US7375683B2 Use of geo-stationary satellites to augment wide— area multilateration synchronization Physics 25 Expired
US7570214B2 Method and apparatus for ADS-B validation, active and passive multilateration, and elliptical surviellance Physics 24 Active
US7889065B2 Method and apparatus to determine vehicle intent Physics 24 Active
US7495612B2 Method and apparatus to improve ADS-B security Physics 20 Expired
US7576695B2 Multilateration enhancements for noise and operations management Physics 20 Active
US8072382B2 Method and apparatus for ADS-B validation, active and passive multilateration, and elliptical surveillance Physics 19 Active
US7248219B2 Correlation of flight track data with other data sources Physics 16 Expired
US7908077B2 Land use compatibility planning software Physics 16 Active
US6806829B2 Method and apparatus for improving the utility of a automatic dependent surveillance Physics 14 Expired
US7889133B2 Multilateration enhancements for noise and operations management Physics 13 Active

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