David J. Benard
20Patents
8h-index
18Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 13, 1979 → Sep 30, 2004
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6741237B1 | Touch screen | Electricity | 52 | Expired |
| US6208495A | Method and apparatus for interrupting a current carrying path in a multiphase circuit | Electricity | 52 | Expired |
| US7079118B2 | Touch screen using echo-location | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US4267526A | Continuous wave chemically pumped atomic iodine laser | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US4246252A | Gas generating system for chemical lasers | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 19 | Expired |
| US4558451A | Tubular singlet delta oxygen generator | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US5587861A | Method for interrupting electrical power between two conductors | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US4434492A | Method and apparatus for iodine vaporization | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US5579198A | Apparatus for interrupting electrical power between two conductors | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US4622676A | Upconversion of laser radiation frequency in an oxygen-iodine laser | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US4759179A | Method for generating electronically excited NF for use in a laser | Electricity | 4 | Expired |
| US5864453A | Apparatus for interrupting electrical power between two conductors | Electricity | 4 | Expired |
| US5436532A | Fluorescent lamp with improved efficiency | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US6667863B1 | Method and apparatus for interrupting current through deionization of arc plasma | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US6665157B2 | Apparatus for interrupting an electrical circuit | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US6594126B1 | Method and apparatus for extinguishing an arc through material surface ablation | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US6631058B1 | Method and apparatus for reducing arc retrogression in a circuit interrupter | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US6028753A | Method and apparatus for interrupting a current carrying path in a multiphase circuit | Electricity | 2 | Expired |
| US6674619B2 | Method for interrupting an electrical circuit | Electricity | 0 | Expired |
| US7138892B2 | Method and apparatus for soft-fault tolerant circuit interruption | Electricity | 0 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.