Inventor · Ottawa, ON, CA

Kim B. Roberts

78Patents
16h-index
52Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 5, 1997 → Sep 26, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7756421B2 Electrical domain compensation of non-linear effects in an optical communications system Electricity 83 Expired
US7894728B1 Sample timing control in an optical receiver Electricity 62 Active
US5822094A Self-stimulation signal detection in an optical transmission system Electricity 60 Expired
US10374623B1 Digital-to-analog converter and generation of high-bandwidth analog signals Electricity 55 Active
US7936999B1 Automatic gain control in a coherent optical receiver Electricity 42 Active
US7899340B1 Laser control in a coherent optical receiver Electricity 42 Active
US8009985B1 Traffic driven variable bandwidth optical transmission Electricity 37 Active
US6178025A Optical network loss-of-signal detection Electricity 35 Expired
US6411417B1 Optical equalizer Electricity 27 Expired
US8005368B2 Signal equalizer in a coherent optical receiver Electricity 24 Active
US10680739B2 Systems and methods to increase capacity in optical networks based on excess margin Electricity 21 Active
US7894721B2 Control of parameters in a global optical controller Electricity 20 Active
US8594499B1 Monitoring phase non-linearities in an optical communications system Electricity 20 Active
US8385747B2 Signal equalizer in a coherent receiver Electricity 19 Active
US9698939B2 Variable spectral efficiency optical modulation schemes Electricity 18 Active
US8958696B2 Coherent augmented optical add-drop multiplexer Electricity 17 Active
US8023402B2 Low conversion rate digital dispersion compensation Electricity 15 Active
US9438369B2 Margin-based optimization systems and methods in optical networks for capacity boosting Electricity 12 Active
US10784980B2 Adjustment of control parameters of section of optical fiber network Electricity 10 Active
US8131148B2 Optical transmitter error reduction using receiver feedback Electricity 10 Active
US10236981B2 Adjustment of control parameters of section of optical fiber network Electricity 9 Active
US8315528B2 Zero mean carrier recovery Electricity 9 Active
US9590731B2 Signal equalizer in a coherent optical receiver Electricity 9 Active
US10148384B2 Systems and methods to increase capacity in optical networks based on excess margin Electricity 9 Active
US10142022B1 Adjustment of control parameters of section of optical fiber network Electricity 8 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.