Inventor · Aix-en-Provence, FR

Francois Nicolas

21Patents
10h-index
33Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 31, 1979 → Apr 19, 2002

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6415015B2 Method and system of compensation of thickness of an organ Physics 119 Expired
US5251206A Hybrid switching system for a communication node Electricity 74 Expired
US6795526B2 Automatic exposure control for a digital image acquisition system Physics 30 Expired
US5576660A Broadband predistortion linearizer with automatic temperature compensation for microwave amplifiers Electricity 27 Expired
US7068826B2 Automatic selection of the log-subtraction decomposition parameters for dual energy chest radiography Physics 21 Expired
US6343111B1 Dual energy decomposition using automatically determined cancellation parameters Electricity 20 Expired
US7139417B2 Combination compression and registration techniques to implement temporal subtraction as an application service provider to detect changes over time to medical imaging Physics 16 Expired
US6816572B2 Method, system and computer product for processing dual energy images Human Necessities 15 Expired
US6827489B2 Low-dose exposure aided positioning (LEAP) for digital radiography Human Necessities 11 Expired
US4451439A Process for the purification of solutions containing a sodium or potassium carbonate, sulphate, and possibly hydroxide, and at least one of the metals vanadium, uranium and molybdenum Chemistry; Metallurgy 10 Expired
US6643536B2 System and method for synchronization of the acquisition of images with the cardiac cycle for dual energy imaging Human Necessities 9 Expired
US4597952A Purification of solutions of sodium aluminate in the Bayer cycle by the removal of sodium oxalate Chemistry; Metallurgy 9 Expired
US6917697B2 Method and apparatus to automatically determine tissue cancellation parameters in X-ray dual energy imaging Physics 9 Expired
US5284605A Method of treating gas based on electrolytic fluorine containing uranium compounds Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US6718056B1 Method of automatic determination of the contrast and brightness of a digital radiographic image Physics 7 Expired
US4296073A High temperature attack of ores by means of a liquor essentially containing a soluble bicarbonate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Expired
US7122802B2 Method and apparatus for increasing the data acquisition rate in a digital detector Electricity 3 Expired
US4423009A Carbonate, sulphate and hydroxide or hydrogen carbonate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US4423013A Process for the purification of solutions containing alkali metal carbonate, sulphate, hydroxide or possibly hydrogen carbonate, and one at least of the metals vanadium, uranium and molybdenum Chemistry; Metallurgy 2 Expired
US4400359A Process for the hot oxidized attack on a uraniferous ore by a concentrated alkaline liquor with simultaneous uranium precipitation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Expired
US5219540A Method of removing ruthenium contained in uranium-containing solutions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Expired

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