Inventor · Amherst, NH, US

Brian Kirk

58Patents
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24Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 18, 2005 → May 12, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7163421B1 High speed high density electrical connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 242 Expired
US7794278B2 Electrical connector lead frame Electricity 174 Active
US7581990B2 High speed, high density electrical connector with selective positioning of lossy regions Electricity 165 Active
US7753731B2 High speed, high density electrical connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 159 Active
US7335063B2 High speed, high density electrical connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 153 Active
US7722401B2 Differential electrical connector with skew control Electricity 149 Active
US9028281B2 High performance, small form factor connector Electricity 146 Active
US8864521B2 High frequency electrical connector Electricity 146 Active
US7794240B2 Electrical connector with complementary conductive elements Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 136 Active
US7914304B2 Electrical connector with conductors having diverging portions Electricity 136 Active
US8926377B2 High performance, small form factor connector with common mode impedance control Electricity 135 Active
US8215968B2 Electrical connector with signal conductor pairs having offset contact portions Electricity 125 Active
US8550861B2 Compressive contact for high speed electrical connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 121 Active
US8657627B2 Mezzanine connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 118 Active
US9219335B2 High frequency electrical connector Electricity 109 Active
US10381767B1 High performance cable connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 73 Active
US7887379B2 Differential pair inversion for reduction of crosstalk in a backplane system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 67 Active
US10243304B2 Connector configurable for high performance Electricity 65 Active
US10122129B2 High performance cable connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 64 Active
US8216001B2 Connector assembly having adjacent differential signal pairs offset or of different polarity Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 64 Active
US10211577B2 High performance cable connector Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 46 Active
US10511128B2 Connector configurable for high performance Electricity 46 Active
US9705255B2 High frequency electrical connector Electricity 35 Active
US10916894B2 Connector configurable for high performance Electricity 24 Active
US10707626B2 Very high speed, high density electrical interconnection system with edge to broadside transition Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Active

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