James C. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Fletcher
280Patents
37h-index
420Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 10, 1971 → May 7, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4088999A | RF beam center location method and apparatus for power transmission system | Physics | 216 | Expired |
| US6985939B2 | Building distributed software services as aggregations of other services | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 213 | Expired |
| US6138156A | Selecting and applying content-reducing filters based on dynamic environmental factors | Electricity | 182 | Expired |
| US6417873B1 | Systems, methods and computer program products for identifying computer file characteristics that can hinder display via hand-held computing devices | Physics | 155 | Expired |
| US3972038A | Accelerometer telemetry system | Human Necessities | 133 | Expired |
| US4064566A | Method of adhering bone to a rigid substrate using a graphite fiber reinforced bone cement | Human Necessities | 122 | Expired |
| US7010681B1 | Method, system and apparatus for selecting encryption levels based on policy profiling | Electricity | 109 | Expired |
| US4137365A | Oxygen post-treatment of plastic surfaces coated with plasma polymerized silicon-containing monomers | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 108 | Expired |
| US3949404A | Highly efficient antenna system using a corrugated horn and scanning hyperbolic reflector | Electricity | 100 | Expired |
| US7035944B2 | Programmatic management of software resources in a content framework environment | Physics | 79 | Expired |
| US3995621A | Liquid cooled brassiere and method of diagnosing malignant tumors therewith | Human Necessities | 77 | Expired |
| US4088926A | Plasma cleaning device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 71 | Expired |
| US3971364A | Catheter tip force transducer for cardiovascular research | Human Necessities | 67 | Expired |
| US3988716A | Computer interface system | Physics | 66 | Expired |
| US4003257A | Analysis of volatile organic compounds | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 61 | Expired |
| US4100331A | Dual membrane, hollow fiber fuel cell and method of operating same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 57 | Expired |
| US5222242A | System for locating a node containing a requested resource and for selectively verifying the presence of the resource at the node | Electricity | 57 | Expired |
| US6931446B1 | Methods, systems and computer program products for policy based network control of characteristics of user sessions | Electricity | 56 | Expired |
| US4101961A | Contour detector and data acquisition system for the left ventricular outline | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US5715395A | Method and apparatus for reducing network resource location traffic in a network | Electricity | 55 | Expired |
| US3988677A | Space communication system for compressed data with a concatenated Reed-Solomon-Viterbi coding channel | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US4033334A | Snap-in compressible biomedical electrode | Human Necessities | 52 | Expired |
| US4119964A | Systems and methods for determining radio frequency interference | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 52 | Expired |
| US4111184A | Sun tracking solar energy collector | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 51 | Expired |
| US4068763A | Wrist joint assembly | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 50 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.