Francois Nicolas
21Patents
10h-index
33Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 31, 1979 → Apr 19, 2002
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.