Gary W. Elko
46Patents
21h-index
27Co-inventors
85Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 26, 1986 → Oct 13, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4741038A | Sound location arrangement | Electricity | 264 | Expired |
| US5473701A | Adaptive microphone array | Electricity | 171 | Expired |
| US6041127A | Steerable and variable first-order differential microphone array | Electricity | 139 | Expired |
| US7171008B2 | Reducing noise in audio systems | Electricity | 115 | Expired |
| US6826284B1 | Method and apparatus for passive acoustic source localization for video camera steering applications | Electricity | 115 | Expired |
| US4802227A | Noise reduction processing arrangement for microphone arrays | Electricity | 102 | Expired |
| US8098844B2 | Dual-microphone spatial noise suppression | Electricity | 71 | Active |
| US4894749A | Option slot filler board | Electricity | 62 | Expired |
| US9301049B2 | Noise-reducing directional microphone array | Electricity | 54 | Active |
| US6584203B2 | Second-order adaptive differential microphone array | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US5388163A | Electret transducer array and fabrication technique | Electricity | 52 | Expired |
| US9307326B2 | Surface-mounted microphone arrays on flexible printed circuit boards | Electricity | 40 | Active |
| US8903106B2 | Augmented elliptical microphone array | Electricity | 38 | Active |
| US8942382B2 | Dynamic beamformer processing for acoustic echo cancellation in systems with high acoustic coupling | Electricity | 35 | Active |
| US9107001B2 | Earphones having configurable microphone arrays | Electricity | 30 | Active |
| US5586191A | Adjustable filter for differential microphones | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US6424719B1 | Acoustic crosstalk cancellation system | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US6751322B1 | Acoustic modeling system and method using pre-computed data structures for beam tracing and path generation | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US8270634B2 | Multiple microphone system | Electricity | 24 | Active |
| US8223981B2 | Wide dynamic range microphone | Electricity | 23 | Active |
| US5303307A | Adjustable filter for differential microphones | Electricity | 22 | Expired |
| US7123727B2 | Adaptive close-talking differential microphone array | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US4965775A | Image derived directional microphones | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US5742693A | Image-derived second-order directional microphones with finite baffle | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US9202475B2 | Noise-reducing directional microphone ARRAYOCO | Electricity | 15 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.