Kenneth L. Walker
77Patents
29h-index
71Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 25, 1980 → Jun 4, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5022812A | Small all terrain mobile robot | Performing Operations; Transporting | 233 | Expired |
| US4932831A | All terrain mobile robot | Performing Operations; Transporting | 146 | Expired |
| US5959750A | Method of upgrading transmission capacity by Raman amplification | Electricity | 132 | Expired |
| US4736826A | Remotely controlled and/or powered mobile robot with cable management arrangement | Electricity | 130 | Expired |
| US6163636A | Optical communication system using multiple-order Raman amplifiers | Electricity | 125 | Expired |
| US5673280A | Article comprising low noise optical fiber raman amplifier | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 118 | Expired |
| US5287427A | Method of making an article comprising an optical component, and article comprising the component | Physics | 107 | Expired |
| US5235659A | Method of making an article comprising an optical waveguide | Physics | 99 | Expired |
| US6081366A | Optical fiber communication system with a distributed Raman amplifier and a remotely pumped er-doped fiber amplifier | Electricity | 94 | Expired |
| US5448674A | Article comprising a dispersion-compensating optical waveguide | Physics | 92 | Expired |
| US5623508A | Article comprising a counter-pumped optical fiber raman amplifier | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 87 | Expired |
| US5039199A | Lightwave transmission system having remotely pumped quasi-distributed amplifying fibers | Electricity | 71 | Expired |
| US5659644A | Fiber light source with multimode fiber coupler | Electricity | 69 | Expired |
| US5541766A | Gain control for optically amplified systems | Electricity | 66 | Expired |
| US5298047A | Method of making a fiber having low polarization mode dispersion due to a permanent spin | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 57 | Expired |
| US5000541A | Hermetically sealed optical fibers | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 56 | Expired |
| US5703978A | Temperature insensitive long-period fiber grating devices | Electricity | 54 | Expired |
| US5327516A | Optical fiber for wavelength division multiplexing | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US6370300B1 | Optical communication system incorporating automatic dispersion compensation modules | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US5074633A | Optical communication system comprising a fiber amplifier | Electricity | 41 | Expired |
| US5058976A | System comprising Er-doped optical fiber | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US5418881A | Article comprising optical fiber having low polarization mode dispersion, due to permanent spin | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 40 | Expired |
| US5898715A | Optical communication system comprising a cladding pumped fiber laser | Electricity | 36 | Expired |
| US5596668A | Single mode optical transmission fiber, and method of making the fiber | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 35 | Expired |
| US6105396A | Method of making a large MCVD single mode fiber preform by varying internal pressure to control preform straightness | Chemistry; Metallurgy | 33 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.