Inventor · Fort Wayne, IN, US

Michael E. Dobbs

12Patents
7h-index
10Co-inventors
59Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 3, 1992 → Sep 24, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5364046A Automatic compliant capture and docking mechanism for spacecraft Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 84 Expired
US5429328A Spacecraft payload exchange system Performing Operations; Transporting 33 Expired
US6949734B2 Active remote sensing using a spectral lock-in technique Physics 20 Expired
US7009170B2 Active remote sensing using a simultaneous spectral sampling technique Physics 11 Expired
US7995917B2 Method and system for measuring optical properties of a medium using digital communication processing techniques Physics 9 Active
US7616888B2 Method and system for measuring optical properties of a medium using digital communication processing techniques Physics 9 Active
US6816264B1 Systems and methods for amplified optical metrology Physics 8 Expired
US6865196B2 Laser spectroscopy using a master/slave architecture Electricity 6 Expired
US5271702A Robotic substrate manipulator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US6697155B2 Multispectral active remote sensing without narrowband optical filters Physics 5 Expired
US7072039B2 Active multiple-color imaging polarimetry Physics 5 Expired
US7009705B1 Active remote sensing using lock-in amplifiers and beam steering Physics 4 Expired

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