Inventor · Menlo Park, CA, US

Barry Thompson

32Patents
7h-index
40Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 27, 2002 → Jun 26, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8089982B1 Method and apparatus for medium reservation and medium reservation modification in a communication system with medium reservation modification granted without requiring additional medium arbitration Electricity 29 Active
US9769459B2 Power efficient laser diode driver circuit and method Physics 26 Active
US8571005B1 Method and apparatus for synchronization of a master timebase with one or more slave timebases using indirect signalling of timing information Electricity 22 Active
US8848730B1 Method and apparatus for scanning and device detection in a communication system Electricity 15 Active
US7009603B2 Method and apparatus for driving light emitting polymer displays Physics 9 Expired
US9442186B2 Interference reduction for TOF systems Physics 9 Active
US8634341B1 Method and apparatus for iterative synchronization of two or more electronic devices Electricity 7 Active
US8791887B2 Method of compensating for capacitance of a programming line of an OLED display Physics 5 Active
US11108957B1 Low power operation of differential image sensor pixels Electricity 5 Active
US8561315B2 Solar grain drying system and method Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 4 Active
US8638424B2 Charge equalizing clock driver and other enhancements for time-of-flight depth sensing and other systems Physics 3 Active
US7926392B2 Automatic slack adjuster tool Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 2 Active
US10020813B1 Scaleable DLL clocking system Electricity 2 Active
US8146241B1 Tool for reconfiguring the pins of a tractor trailer electrical connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US9753138B1 Transducer measurement Physics 2 Active
US11688333B1 Micro-LED display Physics 2 Active
US9198115B2 Method and apparatus for scanning and device detection in a communication system Electricity 1 Active
US10213351B2 Mobile screening apparatus Human Necessities 1 Active
US10320399B2 Scaleable DLL clocking system Electricity 0 Active
US10306172B2 Time-of-flight sensor readout circuit Electricity 0 Active
US10205931B2 Power efficient laser diode driver circuit and method Physics 0 Active
US9584004B2 Regenerative power supply system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US8102871B1 Method and apparatus for medium reservation and medium reservation modification in a communication system Electricity 0 Active
US10088861B2 High accuracy voltage references Physics 0 Active
US12254129B2 Determining charge on a facial-tracking sensor Physics 0 Active

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