Inventor · Dallas, TX, US

Claude E. Tew

22Patents
13h-index
20Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: May 28, 1981 → Sep 12, 2005

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5444566A Optimized electronic operation of digital micromirror devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 377 Expired
US6466358B2 Analog pulse width modulation cell for digital micromechanical device Electricity 230 Expired
US5481118A On-chip light sensor Electricity 69 Expired
US4684812A Switching circuit for a detector array Electricity 49 Expired
US4779004A Infrared imager Electricity 42 Expired
US4686373A Infrared imager Electricity 41 Expired
US6232963A Modulated-amplitude illumination for spatial light modulator Physics 40 Expired
US6398389B1 Solid state light source augmentation for SLM display systems Electricity 37 Expired
US6642969B2 Color wheel for a falling raster scan Physics 35 Expired
US4659928A Focal plane array infrared device Electricity 32 Expired
US6943950B2 Two-dimensional blazed MEMS grating Physics 31 Expired
US5705299A Large die photolithography Physics 22 Expired
US6816640B2 Optical add drop multiplexer Physics 16 Expired
US5182446A Circuit with reset noise cancellation Electricity 13 Expired
US6618520B2 Micromirror optical switch Physics 13 Expired
US6633694B2 Micromirror optical switch Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US4405230A Heterodyne laser ranging system Physics 9 Expired
USRE38126E1 Large die photolithography General 5 Expired
US6121613A Forward looking infrared device Electricity 4 Expired
US5745088A Time multiplexed addressing circuitry Physics 3 Expired
US7630135B2 Two-dimensional blazed MEMS granting Physics 2 Expired
US4580051A Infrared imaging systems with pseudo AC coupling circuit Electricity 2 Expired

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