Inventor · Toronto, ON, CA

Richard C. Walker

47Patents
25h-index
47Co-inventors
85Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 20, 1975 → Sep 11, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6647328B2 Electrically controlled automated devices to control equipment and machinery with remote control and accountability worldwide Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 374 Expired
US6965816B2 PFN/TRAC system FAA upgrades for accountable remote and robotics control to stop the unauthorized use of aircraft and to improve equipment management and public safety in transportation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 314 Expired
US6650638B1 Decoding method and decoder for 64b/66b coded packetized serial data Electricity 193 Expired
US7259357B2 Electronically controlled sealing, unsealing and/or bonding with metal strip or wire coated with liquefiable substance for redundant application and tamper detection Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 167 Expired
US7249314B2 Simultaneous multi-user document editing system Physics 157 Expired
US6501404B2 System and method for encoding an input data stream by utilizing a predictive, look-ahead feature Electricity 152 Expired
US6157317A Secure communication and control system for monitoring, recording, reporting and/or restricting unauthorized use of vehicle. Performing Operations; Transporting 148 Expired
US6735328B1 Personal viewing device with system for providing identification information to a connected system Physics 103 Expired
US6975617B2 Network monitoring system with built-in monitoring data gathering Electricity 103 Expired
US6249269A Analog pixel drive circuit for an electro-optical material-based display device Physics 63 Expired
US6359662B1 Method and system for compensating for defects in a multi-light valve display system Physics 57 Expired
US6329974A Electro-optical material-based display device having analog pixel drivers Physics 54 Expired
US10235184B2 Boot loader for active cable assemblies Electricity 53 Active
US4884041A Fully integrated high-speed voltage controlled ring oscillator Electricity 53 Expired
US5438621A DC-free line code and bit and frame synchronization for arbitrary data transmission Electricity 50 Expired
US6795064B2 Electro-optical material-based grey scale generating method Physics 49 Expired
US6718491B1 Coding method and coder for coding packetized serial data with low overhead Electricity 45 Expired
US9213445B2 Optical touch-screen systems and methods using a planar transparent sheet Physics 45 Active
US6055286A Oversampling rotational frequency detector Electricity 35 Expired
US5012494A Method and apparatus for clock recovery and data retiming for random NRZ data Electricity 35 Expired
US4001036A System for improving charge efficiency of a zinc-chloride battery Electricity 31 Expired
US5018190A Device to block unauthorized modem access over a PBX line Electricity 30 Expired
US8403571B2 Apparatuses, systems, and methods for facilitating optical communication between electronic devices Physics 30 Active
US5678222A Modulation and frequency conversion by time sharing Electricity 26 Expired
US5841325A Fully-integrated high-speed interleaved voltage-controlled ring oscillator Electricity 25 Expired

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