David B. Payne
15Patents
12h-index
19Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 28, 1980 → Jun 4, 2007
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4946245A | Optical filters | Physics | 120 | Expired |
| US4452506A | Coupling of dielectric optical waveguides | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 44 | Expired |
| US5010586A | Optical two-way transmission system with loop reflector modulator | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US5305402A | Tunable optical filters | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5241409A | Communications network with switching distributed among a central switching node and optical input and output sub-networks | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US5605390A | Optical projector | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US5129021A | Optical star couplers | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US4839898A | Optical resonating device | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US4900114A | Technique for reducing fibre joint loss | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US4497536A | Coupling of dielectric optical waveguides | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US5749641A | Optical projector | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| USD382002S | Tower-format optical projector | General | 16 | Expired |
| US6201622A | Optical network | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US5816675A | Optical projector | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US8730987B2 | Framing of analog communication | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.