Billy Colston
14Patents
10h-index
28Co-inventors
68Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 23, 1997 → May 24, 2010
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7041481B2 | Chemical amplification based on fluid partitioning | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 538 | Expired |
| US6175669A | Optical coherence domain reflectometry guidewire | Human Necessities | 404 | Expired |
| US6384915B1 | Catheter guided by optical coherence domain reflectometry | Human Necessities | 250 | Expired |
| US6905885B2 | Portable pathogen detection system | Physics | 116 | Expired |
| US6466713B2 | Optical fiber head for providing lateral viewing | Human Necessities | 66 | Expired |
| US5912945A | X-ray compass for determining device orientation | Physics | 65 | Expired |
| US6015969A | Multiple-wavelength spectroscopic quantitation of light-absorbing species in scattering media | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US6179611A | Dental optical coherence domain reflectometry explorer | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US6522407B2 | Optical detection dental disease using polarized light | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US7993266B2 | Early detection of contagious diseases | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 19 | Active |
| US7188731B2 | Variable flexure-based fluid filter | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US9052255B2 | System for autonomous monitoring of bioagents | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Active |
| US9422586B2 | Method for genetic identification of unknown organisms | Performing Operations; Transporting | 0 | Active |
| US9409177B2 | Chip-based device for parallel sorting, amplification, detection, and identification of nucleic acid subsequences | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.