Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Andrew E. Turner

48Patents
8h-index
53Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 21, 1988 → Jan 9, 2024

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5326054A Apogee at constant time-of-day equatorial (ACE) orbit Performing Operations; Transporting 37 Expired
US9361228B2 Cache line compaction of compressed data segments Physics 19 Active
US6695251B2 Method and system for synchronized forward and Aft thrust vector control Physics 19 Expired
US6553286B2 Spacecraft constellation formation keeping using inter-spacecraft distance measurement Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Expired
US10538347B1 Smallsat payload configuration Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Active
US6464174B1 Round-trip orbital operation of a spacecraft Performing Operations; Transporting 9 Expired
US10707961B2 Adaptive communication system Electricity 8 Active
US6318676A Equatorial-normal body-stabilized spacecraft and control method for inclined orbit operation Performing Operations; Transporting 8 Expired
US9355038B2 Cache bank spreading for compression algorithms Physics 5 Active
US6360993B1 Expendable launch vehicle Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 3 Expired
US10225002B2 Satellite system with rolling wave handovers Electricity 3 Active
US10089238B2 Method and apparatus for a shared cache with dynamic partitioning Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US10479534B1 Rotatable stacked spacecraft Performing Operations; Transporting 3 Active
US9669950B2 Spacecraft capture mechanism Performing Operations; Transporting 3 Active
US10255181B2 Dynamic input/output coherency Physics 3 Active
US11599468B1 Marshalled data coherency Physics 3 Active
US10503643B1 Cache coherence with functional address apertures Physics 2 Active
US10261910B2 Cache line compaction of compressed data segments Physics 2 Active
US10661918B2 Self-assembling persistent space platform Performing Operations; Transporting 2 Active
US10214303B1 Low cost launch vehicle fairing Performing Operations; Transporting 2 Active
US9489305B2 System and method for managing bandwidth and power consumption through data filtering Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US10747671B1 System and method for intelligent tile-based prefetching of image frames in a system on a chip Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US10364051B1 Efficient stationkeeping strategy for the three apogee (TAP) orbit Performing Operations; Transporting 1 Active
US10329034B2 Efficient orbital storage and deployment for spacecraft in inclined geosynchronous orbit Performing Operations; Transporting 1 Active
US11820535B2 Small satellite constellation for worldwide surveillance Performing Operations; Transporting 1 Active

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