Inventor · Thousand Oaks, CA, US

Bruce K. Winker

46Patents
14h-index
35Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 30, 1993 → Sep 6, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
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.