David William Burns
109Patents
31h-index
119Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 5, 1981 → Jan 30, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5559358A | Opto-electro-mechanical device or filter, process for making, and sensors made therefrom | Physics | 409 | Expired |
| US4897360A | Polysilicon thin film process | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 153 | Expired |
| US6229190A | Compensated semiconductor pressure sensor | Electricity | 121 | Expired |
| US4744863A | Sealed cavity semiconductor pressure transducers and method of producing the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 118 | Expired |
| US5485753A | Piezoresistive silicon pressure sensor implementing long diaphragms with large aspect ratios | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 97 | Expired |
| US6351996B1 | Hermetic packaging for semiconductor pressure sensors | Physics | 96 | Expired |
| US4853669A | Sealed cavity semiconductor pressure transducers and method of producing the same | Performing Operations; Transporting | 89 | Expired |
| US5417115A | Dielectrically isolated resonant microsensors | Physics | 83 | Expired |
| US4996082A | Sealed cavity semiconductor pressure transducers and method of producing the same | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US9945818B2 | Ultrasonic authenticating button | Physics | 72 | Active |
| US6255728A | Rigid encapsulation package for semiconductor devices | Electricity | 68 | Expired |
| US9323393B2 | Display with peripherally configured ultrasonic biometric sensor | Physics | 63 | Active |
| US5808210A | Thin film resonant microbeam absolute pressure sensor | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US9815087B2 | Micromechanical ultrasonic transducers and display | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 58 | Active |
| US9665763B2 | Finger/non-finger determination for biometric sensors | Physics | 56 | Active |
| US6557419B1 | Zero TCF thin film resonator | Performing Operations; Transporting | 55 | Expired |
| US6346742B1 | Chip-scale packaged pressure sensor | Electricity | 55 | Expired |
| US5275055A | Resonant gauge with microbeam driven in constant electric field | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 49 | Expired |
| US6006607A | Piezoresistive pressure sensor with sculpted diaphragm | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US6246638A | Fiber-optic vibration sensor based on frequency modulation of light-excited oscillators | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US10478858B2 | Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducer and process | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 45 | Active |
| US9582705B2 | Layered filtering for biometric sensors | Physics | 43 | Active |
| US5458000A | Static pressure compensation of resonant integrated microbeam sensors | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US8743082B2 | Controller architecture for combination touch, handwriting and fingerprint sensor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 40 | Active |
| US5772322A | Resonant microbeam temperature sensor | Physics | 39 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.