Inventor · Saratoga, CA, US

Drew D. Perkins

29Patents
11h-index
33Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 1, 1999 → Jun 7, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7283694B2 Transmitter photonic integrated circuits (TxPIC) and optical transport networks employing TxPICs Electricity 55 Expired
US7734191B1 Forward error correction (FEC) enabled photonic integrated circuit (PICs) chips with multiple signal channels Electricity 41 Active
US9031412B2 Coolerless photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for WDM transmission networks and PICs operable with a floating signal channel grid changing with temperature but with fixed channel spacing in the floating grid Electricity 38 Active
US7636522B2 Coolerless photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for WDM transmission networks and PICs operable with a floating signal channel grid changing with temperature but with fixed channel spacing in the floating grid Electricity 37 Expired
US7295783B2 Digital optical network architecture Electricity 32 Expired
US7286487B2 Optical transmission network with asynchronous mapping and demapping and digital wrapper frame for the same Electricity 21 Expired
US8521020B2 Forward error correction (FEC) enabled photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips with multiple signal channels Electricity 18 Active
US7680368B2 Monolithic transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) with a traversely disposed output Electricity 18 Active
US7751713B2 Communication network with skew path monitoring and adjustment Electricity 15 Active
US8274892B2 Universal digital framer architecture for transport of client signals of any client payload and format type Electricity 13 Active
US7340122B2 Monolithic transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) with integrated optical components in circuit signal channels Electricity 11 Active
US7512295B2 Transmitter photonic integrated circuits (TXPICS) with directly modulated lasers and wavelength selective combiners Electricity 10 Active
US7773837B2 Monolithic transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TXPIC) with a transversely disposed output Electricity 10 Active
US7009934B1 Method and apparatus for rerouting an optical network upon fault Electricity 10 Expired
US7555220B2 Chromatic dispersion compensator (CDC) in a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip and method of operation Physics 9 Active
US8249463B2 Skew compensation across polarized optical channels Electricity 9 Active
US7477807B2 Monolithic transmitter photonic integrated circuit (TxPIC) semiconductor chip Electricity 7 Active
US7634195B2 Digital optical network architecture Electricity 5 Active
US7684399B2 Optical transmission network with asynchronous mapping and demapping and digital wrapper frame for the same Electricity 5 Active
US7570671B2 Method and apparatus for deploying forward error correction in optical transmission networks and the deployment of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chips with the same Electricity 5 Active
US7769051B2 Optical transmission network with asynchronous mapping and demapping and digital wrapper frame for the same Electricity 3 Active
US7716560B1 Protection switch decision architecture Electricity 3 Active
US8442040B2 Modular adaptation and configuration of a network node architecture Electricity 2 Active
US8111685B2 Communication network with co-routed multi-channel traffic Electricity 2 Active
US8655169B2 Degradation adaptation network Electricity 2 Active

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