Kenneth A. Brown
23Patents
9h-index
11Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 17, 1979 → Sep 8, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4740781A | Touch panel data entry device for thin film electroluminescent panels | Physics | 82 | Expired |
| US5044037A | Musical toothbrush | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 77 | Expired |
| US4617561A | Emergency light and smoke alarm system | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 27 | Expired |
| US4827769A | Fuel level sensor with buried conductor | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US4819284A | Inflatable crib | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Expired |
| US6604235B1 | Operating system upgrading | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US5017741A | Rotary digital contact encoder substrate | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US6459261B1 | Magnetic incremental motion detection system and method | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US4845839A | Method of making a resistive element | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 9 | Expired |
| US4961025A | Cathode for image intensifier tube having reduced veiling glare | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US7123027B2 | Capacitively coupled position encoder | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| USD290406S | Combined emergency flashlight and smoke alarm system | General | 7 | Expired |
| US6717399B2 | Magnetic sensing device with offset compensation | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| USD343295S | Musical toothbrush | General | 5 | Expired |
| US6836220B2 | Miniaturized self-contained sensors for monitoring and storing data as to temperature and the like at remote areas and removable therefrom for digital reading, and novel method of operating the same | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US4277874A | Air filtration bag replacement device | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Expired |
| US7420376B2 | Method of sensing absolute position of a structure using a capacitively coupled position encoder | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US5007159A | Method of manufacturing an electrical component, e.g. a digital contacting encoder | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Expired |
| US8476028B2 | Sepsis test | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US10625290B2 | Protective painting shield for circular fixture junctions | Performing Operations; Transporting | 1 | Active |
| USD303732S | Toothbrush | General | 0 | Expired |
| US7138807B2 | Capacitive sensing techniques that include determing rotational position of one electrode relative to other electrodes separated by an electrically nonconductive gap | Electricity | 0 | Expired |
| US7119718B2 | Encoding techniques for a capacitance-based sensor | Electricity | 0 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.