Kenneth Wayne Rigby
20Patents
11h-index
41Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 18, 1994 → Jul 13, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7443765B2 | Reconfigurable linear sensor arrays for reduced channel count | Physics | 71 | Active |
| US5911692A | Sparse two-dimensional wideband ultrasound transducer arrays | Performing Operations; Transporting | 67 | Expired |
| US5619998A | Enhanced method for reducing ultrasound speckle noise using wavelet transform | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US7293462B2 | Isolation of short-circuited sensor cells for high-reliability operation of sensor array | Performing Operations; Transporting | 51 | Expired |
| US5388461A | Beamforming time delay correction for a multi-element array ultrasonic scanner using beamsum-channel correlation | Physics | 30 | Expired |
| US8038620B2 | Fresnel zone imaging system and method | Human Necessities | 19 | Active |
| US8494791B2 | Methods and systems for improved correlation of shear displacement waveforms | Human Necessities | 19 | Active |
| US6071240A | Method and apparatus for coherence imaging | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6346079B1 | Method and apparatus for adaptive frame-rate adjustment in ultrasound imaging system | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US6074348A | Method and apparatus for enhanced flow imaging in B-mode ultrasound | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US5910115A | Method and apparatus for coherence filtering of ultrasound images | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US8009072B2 | Predictive analog-to-digital converter and methods thereof | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US6366227B1 | Delta-sigma beamformers with minimal dynamic focusing artifacts | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US5548561A | Ultrasound image enhancement using beam-nulling | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US7740583B2 | Time delay estimation method and system for use in ultrasound imaging | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US9364194B2 | Systems and methods for detecting regions of altered stiffness | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US8876715B2 | Method and system for correcting ultrasound data | Human Necessities | 1 | Active |
| US7128712B2 | Adaptive ultrasound imaging system | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US9375197B2 | Systems and methods for inverted beamforming | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US10518196B2 | Devices for separation of particulates, associated methods and systems | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.