Inventor · Mesa, AZ, US

Bruce A. Cochran

31Patents
18h-index
9Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 1, 1985 → Jan 18, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6005897A Data communication system and method therefor Electricity 203 Expired
US6097764A Pragmatic trellis-coded modulation system and method therefor Electricity 184 Expired
US5440265A Differential/coherent digital demodulator operating at multiple symbol points Electricity 68 Expired
US4611333A Apparatus for despreading a spread spectrum signal produced by a linear feedback shift register (LFSR) Electricity 59 Expired
US5553098A Demodulator with selectable coherent and differential data Electricity 59 Expired
US5386202A Data communication modulation with managed intersymbol interference Electricity 55 Expired
US6222878A Communication system with end-to-end quadrature balance control Electricity 41 Expired
US5878085A Trellis coded modulation communications using pilot bits to resolve phase ambiguities Electricity 36 Expired
US6363124B1 Phase-noise compensated digital communication receiver and method therefor Electricity 33 Expired
US6442217B1 Digital communication receiver with digital, IF, I-Q balancer Electricity 31 Expired
US6104761A Constrained-envelope digital-communications transmission system and method therefor Electricity 29 Expired
US5995551A Rotationally invariant pragmatic trellis coded digital communication system and method therefor Electricity 28 Expired
US6507628B1 Distortion-compensated digital communications receiver and method therefor Electricity 28 Expired
US5671257A Symbol timing recovery based on complex sample magnitude Electricity 27 Expired
US6392500B1 Rotationally invariant digital communications Electricity 23 Expired
US6151368A Phase-noise compensated digital communication receiver and method therefor Electricity 22 Expired
US6337606B1 Digital communications modulator having a modulation processor which supports high data rates Electricity 21 Expired
US6735734B1 Multipoint TDM data distribution system Electricity 18 Expired
US5764102A Multi-stage symbol synchronization Electricity 18 Expired
US6366619B1 Constrained-envelope transmitter and method therefor Electricity 17 Expired
US6931343B2 On-signal quadrature modulator calibration Electricity 15 Expired
US6154510A Symbol timing recovery based on adjusted, phase-selected magnitude values Electricity 12 Expired
US6452948B1 Method for baud-clock phase synchronization in a TDMA digital communications system and apparatus therefor Electricity 11 Expired
US5881110A Carrier phase synchronization by reverse playback Electricity 10 Expired
US6078625A Pragmatic decoder and method therefor Electricity 9 Expired

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