Inventor · Colts Neck Township, NJ, US

Peter W. Smith

30Patents
15h-index
28Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 2, 1973 → Dec 22, 2017

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6810527B1 System and method for distribution and delivery of media context and other data to aircraft passengers Electricity 254 Expired
US4175257A Modular microwave power combiner Electricity 210 Expired
US4196396A Interferometer apparatus using electro-optic material with feedback Physics 130 Expired
US4054846A Transverse-excitation laser with preionization Electricity 51 Expired
US4860296A Laser controlled by a multiple-layer heterostructure Electricity 42 Expired
US3934773A Method for breaking brittle rods or fibers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US4453805A Optical grating using a liquid suspension of dielectric particles Physics 35 Expired
US4515429A Nonlinear and bistable optical waveguide devices Physics 35 Expired
US6212306A Method and device for time domain demultiplexing of serial fiber Bragg grating sensor arrays Physics 26 Expired
US4528464A Degenerate four-wave mixer using multiple quantum well structures Physics 26 Expired
US4597638A Nonlinear optical apparatus Physics 26 Expired
US6571027B2 Method and devices for time domain demultiplexing of serial fiber bragg grating sensor arrays Physics 25 Expired
US4856860A Integrated all-optical switching devices Physics 25 Expired
US6711334B2 Multimode fiber for narrowband bragg gratings Physics 20 Expired
US4252081A Fish cage and method of cleaning fish cage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US4221472A Nonlinear optical apparatus using fabry-perot resonators Physics 14 Expired
US4027814A Apparatus for breaking brittle rods or fibers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US4348679A Multi-mode dual-feed array radar antenna Electricity 12 Expired
US4507776A Nonlinear all-optical time division multiplexer and demultiplexer Physics 11 Expired
US4455643A High speed optical switch and time division optical demultiplexer using a control beam at a linear/nonlinear interface Physics 10 Expired
US3982213A Monolithic reciprocal latching ferrite phase shifter Electricity 8 Expired
US4410239A Nonlinear optical device using self-trapping of light Physics 8 Expired
US4376281A Multimode array antenna Electricity 7 Expired
US4551692A Monolithic polarizer grating Electricity 6 Expired
US4359742A Dual switch multimode array antenna Electricity 5 Expired

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