Inventor · Pittsburgh, PA, US

Daniel Thompson

37Patents
11h-index
47Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 5, 1977 → May 1, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6514046B1 Ceramic composite vane with metallic substructure Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 159 Expired
US9385831B2 Circuits and method to enable efficient generation of direct digital synthesizer based waveforms of arbitrary bandwidth Electricity 147 Active
US6709230B2 Ceramic matrix composite gas turbine vane Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 131 Expired
US7153096B2 Stacked laminate CMC turbine vane Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Expired
US7247002B2 Lamellate CMC structure with interlock to metallic support structure Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 42 Expired
US7247003B2 Stacked lamellate assembly Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 36 Expired
US10698083B2 Method and apparatus of digital beamforming for a radar system Electricity 33 Active
US7198458B2 Fail safe cooling system for turbine vanes Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 24 Expired
US7291407B2 Ceramic material having ceramic matrix composite backing and method of manufacturing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US11158942B1 Apparatus and method for providing probabilistic additive gain, calibration, and linearization in a phased array using single bit sources Electricity 14 Active
US4479735A Shrink fit sleeve for rotating machinery Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US4173429A Centrifugal fan, shaft, plate and hub assembly Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 11 Expired
US9438233B1 Low-power digital logic using a Boolean logic switched inductor-capacitor (SLC) circuit Electricity 8 Active
US7402347B2 In-situ formed thermal barrier coating for a ceramic component Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 7 Expired
US9628164B1 Beamforming engine Electricity 7 Active
US11658410B2 Apparatus and method for synchronizing power circuits with coherent RF signals to form a steered composite RF signal Electricity 6 Active
US10084587B1 Multifunction channelizer/DDC architecture for a digital receiver/exciter Electricity 5 Active
US9274542B2 Creation of radio waveforms according to a probability distribution using weighted parameters Physics 4 Active
US8528339B2 Stacked laminate gas turbine component Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US10181862B1 Parameterizable bandpass delta-sigma modulator Electricity 3 Active
US9391631B1 Processing system with encoding for processing multiple analog signals Electricity 3 Active
US10374675B1 Direct digital synthesis based phase shift digital beam forming Physics 2 Active
US9268551B2 Runtime creation, assignment, deployment and updating of arbitrary radio waveform techniques for a radio waveform generation device Physics 2 Active
US10320596B2 System and method for modulating filter coefficients in a channelizer Electricity 1 Active
US10116322B1 Rail adaptive dither Electricity 0 Active

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