Inventor · Ottawa, ON, CA

Eric Bernier

66Patents
11h-index
38Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 13, 1989 → Jan 30, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8300594B1 Method and apparatus supporting out of band signaling for WLAN using network name Electricity 56 Active
US5998813A Component for protecting telephone line interfaces Electricity 35 Expired
US5861639A Breakover-triggered dipole component having a controlled sensitivity Electricity 34 Expired
US5338964A Integrated circuit comprising a protection diode array Electricity 18 Expired
US5274524A Programmable protection circuit and its monolithic manufacturing Electricity 14 Expired
US5696391A Overload protection circuit Electricity 14 Expired
US6326648A Power switch with a controlled DI/DT Electricity 13 Expired
US5828089A Full protection component for a subscriber line interface circuit Electricity 12 Expired
US5808326A Delta protection component Electricity 11 Expired
US7725029B1 Technique for asymmetric transport Electricity 11 Expired
US5243488A Protection circuit limiting overvoltages between two selected limits and its monolithic integration Electricity 11 Expired
US9258629B2 System and method for an agile cloud radio access network Electricity 11 Active
US9806112B1 Electrostatic discharge guard structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US6323718A Normally-on bidirectional switch Electricity 10 Expired
US9991966B1 Optical transmitter Physics 9 Active
US6049096A Protection component for telephone line interface Electricity 9 Expired
US7676154B2 Method and system for configuring a connection-oriented packet network over a wavelength division multiplexed optical network Electricity 8 Active
US10613276B2 Optical scanner with optically switched paths to multiple surface or edge couplers Physics 8 Active
US8744054B2 Method and system for automatic call redialing Electricity 7 Active
US9513447B1 Active photonic integrated circuit (PIC) with embedded coupling efficiency monitoring Physics 7 Active
US6262443A Monolithic protected rectifying bridge Electricity 7 Expired
US7389043B2 Protection architecture for photonic switch using tunable optical filter Electricity 6 Expired
US7321730B2 Method and apparatus for the transmission fault detection in an access network Electricity 6 Expired
US8971321B2 System and method for accelerating and decelerating packets Electricity 6 Active
US7286755B1 Method and apparatus for testing an optical component Electricity 6 Expired

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