John E. Bowers
21Patents
10h-index
17Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 17, 1975 → Jan 27, 2012
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4723827A | Fiber optic switch and discretely variable delay line | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US4588255A | Optical guided wave signal processor for matrix-vector multiplication and filtering | Physics | 71 | Expired |
| US6074892A | Semiconductor hetero-interface photodetector | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 71 | Expired |
| US4572949A | Fiber optic sensor for detecting very small displacements of a surface | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US4479701A | Dual coupler fiber optic recirculating memory | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US4511207A | Fiber optic data distributor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US4558920A | Tapped optical fiber delay line | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 33 | Expired |
| US4652744A | Fiber optic sensor for detecting very small displacements of a surface | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US4676585A | Continuously variable fiber optic delay line | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 15 | Expired |
| US4317689A | Mercury containment for liquid phase growth of mercury cadmium telluride from tellurium-rich solution | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| US8994004B2 | Hybrid silicon optoelectronic device and method of formation | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Active |
| US4638483A | High speed intensity modulated light source | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US4366771A | Mercury containment for liquid phase growth of mercury cadmium telluride from tellurium-rich solution | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US4458328A | Adaptive filter using an ASW storage correlator | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US4495656A | Fiber optic word generator | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US4008079A | Superconducting alloys | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Expired |
| US6845551B2 | Method of making a power electronics capacitor | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Expired |
| US4496394A | Continuous method of removing tin from lead | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 1 | Expired |
| US8324659B2 | InGaAsSbN photodiode arrays | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 1 | Active |
| US4390363A | Continuous method for removing copper from lead | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 0 | Expired |
| US7915639B2 | InGaAsSbN photodiode arrays | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.