John A. Fee
50Patents
20h-index
25Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 14, 1995 → Feb 13, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6108113A | Method and system for transporting ancillary network data | Electricity | 156 | Expired |
| US5914794A | Method of and apparatus for detecting and reporting faults in an all-optical communications system | Electricity | 91 | Expired |
| US5777761A | System and method for photonic facility and line protection switching using wavelength translation | Electricity | 80 | Expired |
| US5995256A | Method and system for managing optical subcarrier reception | Electricity | 73 | Expired |
| US5884017A | Method and system for optical restoration tributary switching in a fiber network | Electricity | 63 | Expired |
| US5870212A | Self-healing optical network | Electricity | 58 | Expired |
| US5859939A | Method and system for equalizing PMD using incremental delay switching | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US7242831B2 | Low strain optical fiber cable | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US5978130A | Dual-band fiber optic amplification system using a single pump source | Electricity | 46 | Expired |
| US6038044A | Ring/mesh optical network | Electricity | 46 | Expired |
| US5956165A | Method and apparatus for updating subcarrier modulation in a communication network | Electricity | 43 | Expired |
| US6295146A | System and method for sharing a spare channel among two or more optical ring networks | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US5822100A | Method and system for equalizing PMD using incremental delay switching | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US6215565A | Method of and system for diagnosing optical system failures | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US5943352A | External cavity laser with optically switched tuning mechanism | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US5726788A | Dynamically reconfigurable optical interface device using an optically switched backplane | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6285475A | Method and system for detecting optical faults in a network fiber link | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US5731887A | System and method for photonic facility and line protection switching | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US5663822A | Optical comb generator using optical white noise source | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US6515779B2 | Method and system for compensating for chromatic dispersion in an optical network | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6317232A | Bi-directional all-optical regenerator | Electricity | 20 | Expired |
| US6980736B1 | Verification of path integrity in optical switch network | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US6266170A | Method and system for compensating for chromatic dispersion in an optical network | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
| US7389045B2 | Apparatus and method for monitoring and compensating an optical signal | Electricity | 13 | Expired |
| US7562861B2 | Systems and methods for controlling duct pressurization for cable installation | Physics | 12 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.