Eric L. Upton
53Patents
18h-index
39Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 13, 1979 → Feb 17, 2006
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5864296A | Fingerprint detector using ridge resistance sensor | Physics | 150 | Expired |
| US6450773B1 | Piezoelectric vacuum pump and method | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 149 | Expired |
| US4294543A | Optical system for developing point coordinate information | Physics | 88 | Expired |
| US6052475A | Fingerprint detector using ridge resistance sensing array | Physics | 84 | Expired |
| US5784695A | Method and apparatus for handover control in a satellite based telecommunications system | Electricity | 80 | Expired |
| US5651129A | Modular high-capacity solid-state mass data storage device for video servers including a switch for simultaneous multi-viewer access | Electricity | 66 | Expired |
| US6813320B1 | Wireless telecommunications multi-carrier receiver architecture | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US6936913B2 | High performance vias for vertical IC packaging | Electricity | 53 | Expired |
| US5300780A | Missile surveillance method and apparatus | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US6708003B1 | Optical energy transmission system utilizing precise phase and amplitude control | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US6396801B1 | Arbitrary waveform modem | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US5479255A | Multispectral signature extraction technique | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US6208773A | Addressable, semiconductor adaptable Bragg gratings (ASABG) | Electricity | 31 | Expired |
| US6067615A | Reconfigurable processor for executing successive function sequences in a processor operation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 27 | Expired |
| US6020847A | Geolocation method and apparatus for satellite based telecommunications system | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US6115584A | Transmitter-receiver for use in broadband wireless access communications systems | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US4395732A | Statistically adaptive analog to digital converter | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US5471603A | Modular high-capacity solid-state mass data storage device including controller/memory modules arranged in parallel channels | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US5289377A | Fault-tolerant solid-state flight data recorder | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6050598A | Apparatus for and method of monitoring the mass quantity and density of a fluid in a closed container, and a vehicular air bag system incorporating such apparatus | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US6396866B1 | Symmetric chirp communications acquisition method and apparatus | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US5861839A | Antenna apparatus for creating a 2D image | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US6690310B1 | Method and apparatus for adaptively compensating for an inaccuracy in an analog-to-digital converter | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US6035079A | Saturable absorber based optical inverter | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6292119A | Delayed pulse saturable absorber-based downward-folding optical A/D | Physics | 8 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.