Inventor · Burnsville, MN, US

Mark Ray

43Patents
15h-index
21Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 13, 2000 → Oct 18, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6556282B2 Combined LOAS and LIDAR system Physics 102 Expired
US6665063B2 Distributed laser obstacle awareness system Physics 75 Expired
US6608677B1 Mini-lidar sensor for the remote stand-off sensing of chemical/biological substances and method for sensing same Physics 51 Expired
US6650407B2 Wide field scanning laser obstacle awareness system Physics 51 Expired
US6819265B2 Advanced warning ice detection system for aircraft Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 49 Expired
US7026600B2 System and method of identifying an object in a laser beam illuminated scene based on material types Physics 47 Expired
US6985212B2 Laser perimeter awareness system Physics 32 Expired
US7106424B2 Compact laser altimeter system Physics 31 Expired
US7986408B2 Apparatus and method for in-flight detection of airborne water droplets and ice crystals Performing Operations; Transporting 29 Active
US7095488B2 System for profiling objects on terrain forward and below an aircraft utilizing a cross-track laser altimeter Physics 29 Expired
US9476968B2 System and method for monitoring optical subsystem performance in cloud LIDAR systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 25 Active
US7746449B2 Light detection and ranging system Physics 24 Active
US8144325B2 In-flight multiple field of view detector for supercooled airborne water droplets Physics 23 Active
US8338785B2 Apparatus and method for detecting aircraft icing conditions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Active
US6542227B2 System and method of measuring flow velocity in three axes Physics 15 Expired
US9041926B2 Apparatus and method for in-flight detection of airborne volcanic ash Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US7697125B2 Scanning ladar with adjustable operational parameters Physics 10 Active
US9658337B2 Large droplet detection by statistical fluctuations in lidar backscatter Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US9096323B1 Window contamination sensor for optical detection systems Physics 7 Active
US10261006B2 Method of estimating cloud particle sizes using LIDAR ratio Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US10207810B2 Optically detecting cloud metrics using sampled analog measurements of light reflection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US10816661B2 Airborne ice detector using quasi-optical radar Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US8831884B2 Methods of determining water droplet size distributions of clouds Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US10031059B1 Controlled sampling volume of clouds for measuring cloud parameters Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US11137519B2 Multi-fiber optical sensor for icing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active

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