Mark Ray
43Patents
15h-index
21Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 13, 2000 → Oct 18, 2021
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.