Bruce K. Winker
46Patents
14h-index
35Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 30, 1993 → Sep 6, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5619352A | LCD splay/twist compensator having varying tilt and /or azimuthal angles for improved gray scale performance | Physics | 120 | Expired |
| US5504603A | Optical compensator for improved gray scale performance in liquid crystal display | Physics | 99 | Expired |
| US6421033B1 | Current-driven emissive display addressing and fabrication scheme | Electricity | 91 | Expired |
| US5638197A | Inorganic thin film compensator for improved gray scale performance in twisted nematic liquid crystal displays and method of making | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US5589963A | Pixelated compensators for twisted nematic liquid crystal displays | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US6456419B1 | Frequency modulated liquid crystal beamsteering device | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US5557434A | Optical compensator including an o-plate for super-twist nematic liquid crystal display | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US5612801A | Monolithic optical compensation device for improved viewing angle in liquid crystal displays | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5995184A | Thin film compensators having planar alignment of polymerized liquid crystals at the air interface | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 31 | Expired |
| US6239853A | Staggered waveplate LCD privacy screen | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US6710831B1 | High brightness transflective LCD and method using tunable mirror | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US5986733A | Negative optical compensator tilted in respect to liquid crystal cell for liquid crystal display | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US6320634A | Organic polymer O-plate compensator for improved gray scale performance in twisted nematic liquid crystal displays | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5986734A | Organic polymer O-plate compensator for improved gray scale performance in twisted nematic liquid crystal displays | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US5982465A | Film compensated normally white super-twist nematic liquid crystal display that reduces chromaticity shifts over large temperature and viewing angle range | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US9115957B1 | Alignment tool | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 9 | Active |
| US8648914B1 | Laser communication system for spatial referencing | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 7 | Active |
| US7768703B2 | Dual field of view sighting system | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 7 | Active |
| US6538712B1 | High pretilt alignment of reactive liquid crystals in liquid crystal displays | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US6832028B2 | Liquid crystal adaptive coupler for steering a light beam relative to a light-receiving end of an optical waveguide | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US9874426B2 | Retroreflector array and cover for optical bullet tracking | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 5 | Active |
| US7151870B2 | Apparatus for optically coupling a light source with an optical waveguide | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US7835058B2 | Broad spectral range polarization rotator | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US10401497B2 | Tracked bullet correction | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7525712B2 | Broad spectral range polarization rotator | Physics | 3 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.