Francis Devos
17Patents
10h-index
18Co-inventors
69Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 3, 1977 → Sep 24, 1997
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.