Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Dan Vacar

17Patents
6h-index
8Co-inventors
48Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 3, 2005 → Mar 31, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7577542B2 Method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting the resolution of telemetry signals Electricity 25 Active
US7184932B1 Reliability prediction for complex components Physics 15 Expired
US7162393B1 Detecting degradation of components during reliability-evaluation studies Physics 8 Expired
US7330325B2 Proactive fault monitoring of disk drives through phase-sensitive surveillance Physics 7 Active
US7870440B2 Method and apparatus for detecting multiple anomalies in a cluster of components Physics 7 Active
US7283919B2 Determining the quality and reliability of a component by monitoring dynamic variables Physics 6 Expired
US7216062B1 Characterizing degradation of components during reliability-evaluation studies Physics 5 Active
US7353431B2 Method and apparatus for proactive fault monitoring in interconnects Physics 5 Active
US7680624B2 Method and apparatus for performing a real-time root-cause analysis by analyzing degrading telemetry signals Physics 3 Active
US7890278B2 Characterizing the response of a device in a computer system to vibration over a frequency range Physics 3 Active
US7668696B2 Method and apparatus for monitoring the health of a computer system Physics 2 Active
US7982468B2 Apparatus and method for testing electrical interconnects with switches Physics 2 Active
US7800385B2 Apparatus and method for testing electrical interconnects Physics 2 Active
US8140277B2 Enhanced characterization of electrical connection degradation Physics 1 Active
US7466404B1 Technique for diagnosing and screening optical interconnect light sources Electricity 1 Active
US7920986B2 Surface shape metric and method to quantify the surface shape of electronic packages Physics 0 Active
US9229045B2 In-situ characterization of a solid-state light source Physics 0 Active

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