Inventor · Ottawa, ON, CA

Christopher M. Look

17Patents
7h-index
14Co-inventors
63Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 4, 1980 → Aug 13, 2012

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5387927A Method and apparatus for broadband transmission from a central office to a number of subscribers Electricity 87 Expired
US5768279A Broad band transmission system Electricity 63 Expired
US4399541A Light emitting device package having combined heater/cooler Electricity 57 Expired
US7983560B2 Modular WSS-based communications system with colorless add/drop interfaces Electricity 29 Active
US7447397B1 Optical switch matrix Physics 17 Expired
US8406620B2 Passive optical network (PON) in-band optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) Physics 15 Active
US4389557A Semiconductor laser bonding technique Electricity 11 Expired
US4329189A Channelled substrate double heterostructure lasers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US4325034A Semiconductor lasers with integrally formed light emitting diodes Electricity 5 Expired
US8244127B2 Quality of service in an optical network Electricity 4 Active
US7142746B2 Optical backplane system Electricity 4 Expired
US7885541B2 Method and apparatus for optical performance monitoring Electricity 1 Active
US8463122B2 Quality of service in an optical network Electricity 1 Active
US7174066B1 Method and an apparatus to detect signal failure on a per wavelength basis Electricity 1 Expired
US8687964B2 In-band control mechanism Electricity 1 Active
US7848644B2 Method and an apparatus to provide optical equipment protection Electricity 0 Active
US4323859A Chanelled substrate double heterostructure lasers Electricity 0 Expired

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