Inventor · Baltimore, MD, US

Michael Y. Frankel

117Patents
17h-index
51Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 23, 1986 → Oct 27, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US10348410B1 Adaptive optical modem configuration based on operating conditions Electricity 52 Active
US8433192B2 Dynamic performance monitoring systems and methods for optical networks Electricity 39 Active
US6765659B1 Optical supervisory channel apparatus and method for measuring optical properties Physics 39 Expired
US9124383B1 High capacity fiber-optic integrated transmission and switching systems Electricity 34 Active
US6137442A Chirped fiber grating beamformer for phased array antennas Electricity 33 Expired
US6795607B1 Use of tunable laser for optical performance monitoring in WDM system Electricity 27 Expired
US8625994B2 Directionless reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer systems and methods Electricity 26 Active
US8699880B2 Optical transceivers for use in fiber optic communication networks Electricity 24 Active
US8983293B2 Electro-optical switching fabric systems and methods Electricity 24 Active
US6100831A Optoelectronic analog-to-digital converter using wavelength division multiplexing Physics 24 Expired
US7415208B1 Method and system for allocating bandwidth in an optical communication network Electricity 23 Expired
US6907201B1 Optical power transient control system and method Electricity 21 Expired
US8805195B2 High-speed optical transceiver for InfiniBand and Ethernet Electricity 20 Active
US7962049B2 Systems and methods for communication system control utilizing corrected forward error correction error location identifiers Electricity 18 Active
US7693357B2 Methods and systems for eliminating deleterious polarization effects in an optical fiber dispersion compensation module Physics 17 Active
US9551836B2 Optical switch fabric for data center interconnections Electricity 17 Active
US7343101B1 Method and system for reducing crosstalk in an optical communication network Electricity 17 Expired
US10404365B2 Path computation based on dynamic performance monitoring systems and methods in optical networks Electricity 17 Active
US10715888B2 Systems and methods for managing excess optical capacity and margin in optical networks Electricity 17 Active
US9191117B2 High-speed optical transponder systems Electricity 16 Active
US7634194B2 Multi-channel protection switching systems and methods for increased reliability and reduced cost Electricity 16 Active
US8498542B2 Multi-channel optical transceiver with offset quadrature amplitude modulation Electricity 15 Active
US8045855B2 Systems and methods for the mitigation of polarization mode dispersion impairments in fiber optic links Electricity 14 Active
US9515767B2 Multi-channel optical transceiver with offset quadrature amplitude modulation Electricity 14 Active
US6496297B1 Device and method for modulating an optical signal Electricity 14 Expired

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