Inventor · Lestrem, FR

Francis Devos

17Patents
10h-index
18Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 3, 1977 → Sep 24, 1997

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4423086A Process for hard coating with sorbitol and products obtained thereby Human Necessities 48 Expired
US4497846A Sugarless hard candy Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Expired
US4849023A Process for the preparation of a product with a high content of maltitol and uses of this product Human Necessities 25 Expired
US4382962A Sugarless-type chewing gum Human Necessities 21 Expired
US4846139A Process for the preparation of crystalline maltitol Chemistry; Metallurgy 19 Expired
US5173945A Process and apparatus for estimating the movement of a moving object Physics 16 Expired
US4422881A Installation and process for the continuous separation of mixtures of sugars and/or of polyols by selective adsorption Chemistry; Metallurgy 14 Expired
US4163691A Insoluble enzymatically active particles Chemistry; Metallurgy 14 Expired
US4359528A Corn steeping process for products thus obtained and their use in the manufacture of penicillin Chemistry; Metallurgy 13 Expired
US5430290A Photosensitive element and detector for detecting flashes of light Physics 11 Expired
US4792982A Integrated retina having a processors array Electricity 10 Expired
US5381516A Binary resistor network and its use for labelling related components of digitised images in artificial vision Physics 9 Expired
US6023058A Photosensitive detector and mosaic of photosensitive detectors for the detection of luminous flashes and applications Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 7 Expired
US4288619A Process for the recovery of .alpha.-hydroxy- and .alpha.-amino-carboxylic acids from sugar-containing media Chemistry; Metallurgy 5 Expired
US5521857A Process and device for the analog convolution of images Physics 3 Expired
US5466795A Process for the manufacture of mannitol Chemistry; Metallurgy 1 Expired
US4766070A Fermentation process and substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Expired

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