Kevin Townsend
32Patents
9h-index
20Co-inventors
75Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 13, 1995 → May 4, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6282958A | Angular rate sensor | Physics | 68 | Expired |
| US5932804A | Vibrating structure gyroscope | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US7637156B2 | Angular velocity sensor with vibrator having ring portion and electrodes positioned inside and outside the ring portion | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US6631643B2 | Accelerometer | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US8347718B2 | Angular velocity sensors | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US6805007B2 | Vibratory sensor operating as a rate gyro about two axes and as a rate integrating gyro about the third one | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6651499B2 | Control system for a vibrating structure gyroscope | Physics | 11 | Expired |
| US6276204A | Digital control system for a vibrating structure gyroscope | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US5546832A | Striking apparatus having an interchangeable head | Performing Operations; Transporting | 9 | Expired |
| US6698271B1 | Process for reducing bias error in a vibrating structure sensor | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US7219529B2 | Method and apparatus for measuring scalefactor variation in a vibrating structure gyroscope | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| USD374651S | Pair of T-top covers for two-seater sports car | General | 6 | Expired |
| US6471883B1 | Method of manufacturing a vibrating structure gyroscope | Physics | 5 | Expired |
| US6191521A | Vibration damper assembly for a vibrating structure gyroscope resonator | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 2 | Expired |
| US10571485B2 | Accelerometers | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10161957B2 | Accelerometers | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US11249106B2 | Methods for closed loop operation of capacitive accelerometers | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10135454B2 | Oversampling noise-shaping successive approximation ADC | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US9176158B2 | Sensor | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US10753745B2 | Gyroscope loop filter | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9374069B2 | Signal processing | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US10731986B2 | Digital controlled VCO for vibrating structure gyroscope | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US12152884B2 | Synchronous timing to MEMS resonant frequency | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US12382834B2 | Quadrature bias error reduction for vibrating structure gyroscopes | General | 0 | Revoked |
| US9234907B2 | Angular rate sensor with improved aging properties | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.