Mark E. Froggatt
95Patents
20h-index
46Co-inventors
88Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 12, 1993 → Oct 20, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7772541B2 | Fiber optic position and/or shape sensing based on rayleigh scatter | Human Necessities | 293 | Active |
| US7781724B2 | Fiber optic position and shape sensing device and method relating thereto | Physics | 210 | Active |
| US5798521A | Apparatus and method for measuring strain in bragg gratings | Physics | 199 | Expired |
| US6545760B1 | Apparatus and method for measuring strain in optical fibers using rayleigh scatter | Physics | 158 | Expired |
| US7042573B2 | Apparatus and method for the complete characterization of optical devices including loss, birefringence and dispersion effects | Physics | 144 | Expired |
| US6856400B1 | Apparatus and method for the complete characterization of optical devices including loss, birefringence and dispersion effects | Physics | 104 | Expired |
| US7440087B2 | Identifying optical fiber segments and determining characteristics of an optical device under test based on fiber segment scatter pattern data | Physics | 95 | Expired |
| US6566648B1 | Edge triggered apparatus and method for measuring strain in bragg gratings | Physics | 90 | Expired |
| US7515276B2 | High resolution interferometric optical frequency domain reflectometry (OFDR) beyond the laser coherence length | Physics | 84 | Active |
| US6900897B2 | Apparatus and method for correcting errors generated by a laser with non-ideal tuning characteristics | Physics | 79 | Expired |
| US6376830B1 | System and method for measuring the transfer function of a guided wave device | Physics | 78 | Expired |
| US10823627B2 | Shape sensing with multi-core fiber sensor | Physics | 70 | Active |
| US10480926B2 | Apparatus and method for generating 3-D data for an anatomical target using optical fiber shape sensing | Physics | 69 | Active |
| US8773650B2 | Optical position and/or shape sensing | Physics | 64 | Active |
| US7538883B2 | Distributed strain and temperature discrimination in polarization maintaining fiber | Physics | 55 | Active |
| US7330245B2 | Calculation of birefringence in a waveguide based on Rayleigh scatter | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US8531655B2 | Compensating for non-ideal multi-core optical fiber structure | Physics | 35 | Active |
| US8400620B2 | Registration of an extended reference for parameter measurement in an optical sensing system | Physics | 30 | Active |
| US6426496B1 | High precision wavelength monitor for tunable laser systems | Electricity | 25 | Expired |
| US9784569B2 | Methods and apparatus to determine strain on an optical core based on tracked change in phase | Physics | 20 | Active |
| US7948633B2 | Compensating for time varying phase changes in interferometric measurements | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US7379168B2 | Polarization diversity detection without a polarizing beam splitter | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US9025158B2 | Interferometric measurement with crosstalk suppression | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US8004686B2 | Compensating for time varying phase changes in interferometric measurements | Physics | 14 | Active |
| US10416391B2 | Interferometric alignment of optical multicore fibers to be connected | Physics | 9 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.