Ian Miller
53Patents
28h-index
41Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 30, 1997 → Jun 27, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6230307A | System and method for programming the hardware of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and related reconfiguration resources as if they were software by creating hardware objects | Physics | 241 | Expired |
| US6122670A | Apparatus and method for constructing data for transmission within a reliable communication protocol by performing portions of the protocol suite concurrently | Electricity | 228 | Expired |
| US6345302B1 | System for transmitting and receiving data within a reliable communications protocol by concurrently processing portions of the protocol suite | Electricity | 114 | Expired |
| US6625797B1 | Means and method for compiling high level software languages into algorithmically equivalent hardware representations | Physics | 85 | Expired |
| US10698412B2 | Inspection robot with couplant chamber disposed within sled for acoustic coupling | Physics | 63 | Active |
| US10481608B2 | System, method, and apparatus to perform a surface inspection using real-time position information | Physics | 63 | Active |
| US10534365B2 | Inspection robot having vertically distributed payloads with horizontally distributed sensor sleds | Physics | 61 | Active |
| US10739779B2 | Inspection robot having replaceable sensor sled portions | Physics | 59 | Active |
| US10942522B2 | System, method, and apparatus for correlating inspection data and image data | Physics | 57 | Active |
| US10895878B2 | Inspection robot having self-aligning wheels | Physics | 57 | Active |
| US10795373B2 | Inspection robot having a number of horizontally displaced sensor sleds | Physics | 57 | Active |
| US10884423B2 | System, method, and apparatus for acoustic and magnetic induction thickness inspection of a material on a substrate | Physics | 57 | Active |
| US8146040B1 | Method of evaluating an architecture for an integrated circuit device | Physics | 54 | Active |
| US11144063B2 | System, method, and apparatus for inspecting a surface | Physics | 53 | Active |
| US11157012B2 | System, method, and apparatus for an inspection robot performing an ultrasonic inspection | Physics | 51 | Active |
| US11157013B2 | Inspection robot having serial sensor operations | Physics | 51 | Active |
| US7509619B1 | Auto generation of a multi-staged processing pipeline hardware implementation for designs captured in high level languages | Physics | 47 | Active |
| US8001510B1 | Automated method of architecture mapping selection from constrained high level language description via element characterization | Physics | 42 | Active |
| US11385650B2 | Inspection robot having replaceable sensor sled portions | Physics | 39 | Active |
| US11511426B2 | System, method, and apparatus for rapid development of an inspection scheme for an inspection robot | Physics | 36 | Active |
| US11518030B2 | System, apparatus and method for providing an interactive inspection map | Physics | 36 | Active |
| US11429109B2 | System, method, and apparatus to perform a surface inspection using real-time position information | Physics | 36 | Active |
| US11518031B2 | System and method for traversing an obstacle with an inspection robot | Physics | 35 | Active |
| US11648671B2 | Systems, methods, and apparatus for tracking location of an inspection robot | Physics | 33 | Active |
| US11673272B2 | Inspection robot with stability assist device | Physics | 33 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.