David M. Pepper
70Patents
20h-index
47Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 8, 1980 → Jan 26, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6765495B1 | Inter vehicle communication system | Physics | 452 | Expired |
| US6777244B2 | Compact sensor using microcavity structures | Physics | 124 | Expired |
| US6552696B1 | Electronically tunable reflector | Electricity | 114 | Expired |
| US7729572B1 | Optical tapped time delay modules and arrays | Physics | 99 | Active |
| US5585921A | Laser-ultrasonic non-destructive, non-contacting inspection system | Physics | 66 | Expired |
| US5374456A | Surface potential control in plasma processing of materials | Performing Operations; Transporting | 58 | Expired |
| US4803696A | Laser with grating feedback unstable resonator | Electricity | 58 | Expired |
| US6819432B2 | Coherent detecting receiver using a time delay interferometer and adaptive beam combiner | Electricity | 58 | Expired |
| US5038359A | Self-pumped, optical phase conjugation method and apparatus using pseudo-conjugator to produce retroreflected seed beam | Electricity | 46 | Expired |
| US5684592A | System and method for detecting ultrasound using time-delay interferometry | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US4762397A | Optical phase conjugator with spatially resolvable thresholding utilizing liquid crystal light valve | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7119906B2 | Optical remote sensor with differential Doppler motion compensation | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6075603A | Contactless acoustic sensing system with detector array scanning and self-calibrating | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US5926494A | Laser systems with improved performance and reduced parasitics and method | Electricity | 29 | Expired |
| US5042922A | Method for improvidng the spatial resolution in an integrated adaptive optics apparatus | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US5546187A | Self-referencing laser-based ultrasonic wave receiver | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US5717516A | Hybrid laser power combining and beam cleanup system using nonlinear and adaptive optical wavefront compensation | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US7262861B1 | Ultrasound single-element non-contacting inspection system | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US7089796B2 | Time-reversed photoacoustic system and uses thereof | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US4739496A | Associative holographic memory apparatus employing phase conjugate mirrors | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US4767195A | System and method for encoding information onto an optical beam | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US7027161B2 | Adaptive optical system with self-referencing contrast control | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6087652A | Contactless acoustic sensing system with detector array scanning and self-calibration | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US5909279A | Ultrasonic sensor using short coherence length optical source, and operating method | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6760512B2 | Electro-optical programmable true-time delay generator | Physics | 14 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.