Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

David Cooper

38Patents
15h-index
51Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: May 16, 1975 → Jun 25, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5317156A Diagnostic tests using near-infrared laser absorption spectroscopy Physics 135 Expired
US6159686A Up-converting reporters for biological and other assays Physics 97 Expired
US6312914A Up-converting reporters for biological and other assays Physics 91 Expired
US6321079A Network operator controlled locking and unlocking mechanism for mobile telephones Electricity 70 Expired
US5572031A Pressure- and temperature-compensating oxygen sensor Physics 45 Expired
US4594511A Method and apparatus for double modulation spectroscopy Physics 38 Expired
US4896196A Vertical DMOS power transistor with an integral operating condition sensor Electricity 33 Expired
US6518562B1 Apparatus and method of remote gas trace detection Physics 28 Expired
US5469143A Sleep awakening device for drivers of motor vehicles Physics 28 Expired
US7809454B2 Method and apparatus for simulating composite panel manufacturing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Active
US6664533B1 Apparatus and method of remote gas trace detection Physics 26 Expired
US8682325B1 Handover between mobile communication networks Electricity 21 Expired
US5113131A Voltage measuring device having electro-optic sensor and compensator Physics 21 Expired
US4986099A Lock system and lock having two electronic control systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US6631019B1 Reconfigurable multichannel transmitter for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) optical communication Electricity 17 Expired
US6490011B1 Display device convertible between a cave configuration and a wall configuration Physics 14 Expired
US7930208B2 Method and system for delivery of advertising content in short message service (SMS) messages Electricity 14 Active
US4395867A Pepper harvesting apparatus Human Necessities 13 Expired
US5823270A Steerable implement hitch Human Necessities 12 Expired
US6253073A Radio telephone hand set network restriction Electricity 12 Expired
US10101734B2 Routing of enterprise resource planning messages Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US9588503B2 Routing of enterprise resource planning messages Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US7020105B2 Dynamic resource allocation in packet data transfer Electricity 5 Expired
US7058041B2 Extended dynamic resource allocation in packet data transfer Electricity 4 Expired
US9551983B2 Activity set management in a Manufacturing Execution System Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active

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