Inventor · Sacramento, CA, US

Howard Neil Rourke

19Patents

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6Co-inventors

59Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 19, 1996 → Mar 24, 2021

Most-cited inventions

Patent	Title	Area	Cited by	Status
US10258240B1	Optical fiber pressure sensor	Human Necessities	41	Active
US6363187B1	Chromatic dispersion compensation	Electricity	32	Expired
US8560048B2	Optical ultrasound receiver	Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies	24	Active
US5945261A	Creation of Bragg reflective gratings in waveguides	Physics	23	Expired
US5837169A	Creation of bragg reflactive gratings in waveguides	Physics	19	Expired
US10175421B2	Optical fiber ribbon imaging guidewire and methods	Physics	5	Active
US10327645B2	Imaging techniques using an imaging guidewire	Human Necessities	5	Active
US9078561B2	Optical ultrasound receiver	Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies	5	Active
US10537255B2	Optical fiber pressure sensor	Human Necessities	4	Active
US9936881B2	Polarization scrambling for intra-body fiber optic sensor	Physics	2	Active
US10578798B2	Optical fiber ribbon imaging guidewire and methods	Physics	2	Active
US11172833B2	Optical fiber pressure sensor guidewire	Human Necessities	2	Active
US10983270B2	Optical fiber ribbon imaging guidewire and methods	Physics	1	Active
US10506934B2	Optical fiber pressure sensor	Human Necessities	1	Active
US11696692B2	Optical fiber pressure sensor	Human Necessities	0	Active
US11567259B2	Optical fiber ribbon imaging guidewire and methods	Physics	0	Active
US11298026B2	Imaging techniques using an imaging guidewire	Human Necessities	0	Active
US9579026B2	Optical ultrasound receiver	Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies	0	Active
US11633113B2	Optical sensor assemblies and methods	Physics	0	Active

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