Inventor · Tecate Mission Road, CA, US

Eric Udd

54Patents
29h-index
32Co-inventors
88Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 7, 1978 → Apr 25, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8050523B2 Optical fiber shape sensing systems Human Necessities 151 Active
US5380995A Fiber optic grating sensor systems for sensing environmental effects Physics 101 Expired
US5841131A Fiber optic pressure transducers and pressure sensing system incorporating same Physics 95 Expired
US5397891A Sensor systems employing optical fiber gratings Physics 86 Expired
US5828059A Transverse strain measurements using fiber optic grating based sensors Physics 79 Expired
US4299490A Phase nulling optical gyro Physics 73 Expired
US8515215B2 Optical fiber shape sensing systems Human Necessities 70 Active
US5118931A Fiber optic microbending sensor arrays including microbend sensors sensitive over different bands of wavelengths of light Physics 65 Expired
US8864655B2 Fiber optic instrument shape sensing system and method Human Necessities 63 Active
US5591965A Multiparameter sensor system using a multiple grating fiber optic birefringent fiber Physics 63 Expired
US4588296A Compact optical gyro Physics 62 Expired
US8989528B2 Optical fiber grating sensors and methods of manufacture Human Necessities 61 Active
US4534222A Fiber-optic seismic sensor Physics 59 Expired
US5311592A Sagnac interferometer based secure communication system Physics 54 Expired
US4375680A Optical acoustic sensor Physics 53 Expired
US5627927A Fiber with multiple overlapping gratings Physics 51 Expired
US5636021A Sagnac/Michelson distributed sensing systems Physics 51 Expired
US5694114A Coherent alarm for a secure communication system Physics 51 Expired
US6218661A Methods and apparatus for mechanically enhancing the sensitivity of transversely loaded fiber optic sensors Physics 44 Expired
US5455698A Secure communication alarm system Electricity 41 Expired
US6144026A Fiber optic grating corrosion and chemical sensor Physics 40 Expired
US7038190B2 Fiber grating environmental sensing system Physics 38 Expired
US5046848A Fiber optic detection system using a Sagnac interferometer Physics 38 Expired
US4787741A Fiber optic sensor Physics 37 Expired
US5223967A Secure communications system Electricity 32 Expired

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