Nicholas P. Cowley
114Patents
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55Co-inventors
83Inventor score
Filing activity: May 29, 1986 → Apr 13, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4810976A | Frequency doubling oscillator and mixer circuit | Electricity | 108 | Expired |
| US5057793A | Frequency synthesizer PLL having digital and analog phase detectors | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 74 | Expired |
| US9645646B2 | Three dimensional contextual feedback wristband device | Physics | 45 | Active |
| US6968173B2 | Tuner | Electricity | 28 | Expired |
| US4806878A | Phase comparator lock detect circuit and a synthesizer using same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 21 | Expired |
| US5155455A | AM/FM modulator in which AM can be converted to FM by vector addition | Electricity | 17 | Expired |
| US7006162B2 | Tuner | Electricity | 15 | Expired |
| US8736480B1 | Successive approximation analog-to-digital conversion architectural arrangement for receivers | Electricity | 14 | Active |
| US7620379B2 | Radio frequency tuner | Electricity | 11 | Active |
| US7580680B2 | Method of reducing imbalance in a quadrature frequency converter, method of measuring imbalance in such a converter, and apparatus for performing such method | Electricity | 11 | Active |
| US6901248B1 | Frequency converter and radio frequency tuner | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US6714263B2 | Multiple conversion tuner | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US6954625B2 | Tuner and method of aligning a tuner | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US4953010A | FM demodulator including injection locked oscillator/divider | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US10070816B2 | Orthotic sensor device | Human Necessities | 8 | Active |
| US8730074B1 | Successive approximation analog-to-digital conversion with gain control for tuners | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US6937670B2 | Digital tuner | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US5200650A | High frequency master/slave flip-flops | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US8385457B2 | Methods and systems to compensate IQ imbalance in wideband zero-if tuners | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US10290598B2 | Method and apparatus for forming backside die planar devices and saw filter | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US7236760B2 | Tuner for reception of a broadband radio frequency signal | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US7558543B2 | Radio frequency tuner | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US6895063B1 | Frequency changer and digital tuner | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US9325339B2 | System for analog to digital conversion with improved spurious free dynamic range | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US9231524B2 | Digital transceiver with switched capacitor sampling mixers and switched capacitor amplifiers | Electricity | 5 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.