Frank Ludolph
22Patents
16h-index
22Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 7, 1995 → Apr 8, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5657049A | Desk drawer user interface | Physics | 327 | Expired |
| US7487467B1 | Visual representation and other effects for application management on a device with a small screen | Electricity | 247 | Active |
| US6239798A | Methods and apparatus for a window access panel | Physics | 226 | Expired |
| US5874958A | Method and apparatus for accessing information and items across workspaces | Physics | 210 | Expired |
| US5745096A | Desk drawer user interface | Physics | 161 | Expired |
| US6405221B1 | Method and apparatus for creating the appearance of multiple embedded pages of information in a single web browser display | Physics | 136 | Expired |
| US7665033B2 | Using a zooming effect to provide additional display space for managing applications | Physics | 126 | Active |
| US6664983B2 | Method and apparatus for configuring sliding panels | Physics | 112 | Expired |
| US8042110B1 | Dynamic grouping of application components | Physics | 109 | Active |
| US5943053A | Method and apparatus for expanding and contracting a window panel | Physics | 75 | Expired |
| US6189138A | Visual composition tool for constructing application programs using distributed objects on a distributed object network | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 72 | Expired |
| US5991535A | Visual composition tool for constructing application programs using distributed objects on a distributed object network | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 71 | Expired |
| US6133898A | Desk drawer user interface | Physics | 63 | Expired |
| US5825348A | Desk drawer user interface | Physics | 38 | Expired |
| US5920868A | Cataloging apparatus for facilitating the re-use of distributed objects in a distributed object system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 23 | Expired |
| US8495514B1 | Transparency assisted window focus and selection | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US7703045B1 | Method and apparatus for interacting with objects in a user interface | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US8886243B1 | Orchestrated group communication | Electricity | 9 | Active |
| US8732597B2 | Folded scrolling | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US8471873B2 | Enhanced UI operations leveraging derivative visual representation | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US12040579B2 | Transformer terminal | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US11901719B2 | Cable feedthrough for feeding a cable through a separating element and assembly | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.