Inventor · Hillsboro, OR, US

Richard D. Roberts

109Patents
19h-index
80Co-inventors
89Inventor score

Filing activity: May 19, 1981 → Feb 16, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7830312B2 Wireless antenna array system architecture and methods to achieve 3D beam coverage Electricity 288 Active
US6577670B1 Programmable filtering mechanism to allow bandwidth overlap between direct sequence spread spectrum communication device and frequency-hopping transmitter Electricity 183 Expired
US7274652B1 Dual packet configuration for wireless communications Electricity 105 Expired
US5930301A Up-conversion mechanism employing side lobe-selective pre-distortion filter and frequency replica-selecting bandpass filter respectively installed upstream and downstream of digital-to-analog converter Electricity 80 Expired
US4455894A Hand held opening apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 71 Expired
US6058162A Testing of digital subscriber loops using multi-tone power ratio (MTPR) waveform Electricity 65 Expired
US7646945B2 Structural member bend radius and shape sensor and measurement apparatus Physics 37 Expired
US5293632A Method and apparatus for load shedding using a trainline monitor system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US5299824A Wheel chair with rotatable tray Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US7039392B2 System and method for providing device authentication in a wireless network Electricity 33 Expired
US10285223B2 Heating method Electricity 28 Active
US6006071A RF communications system operable in the presence of a repetitive interference source and related methods Electricity 26 Expired
US6263048A Testing of digital subscriber loops using multi-tone power ratio (MTPR) waveform Electricity 26 Expired
US5265832A Distributed PTU interface system Performing Operations; Transporting 24 Expired
US5425060A Mechanism for reducing timing jitter in clock recovery scheme for blind acquisition of full duplex signals Electricity 24 Expired
US7653020B2 Wireless ultra wideband network having interference mitigation and related methods Electricity 20 Active
US7263333B2 Wireless ultra wideband network having frequency bin transmission level setting and related methods Electricity 19 Expired
US7280615B2 Method for making a clear channel assessment in a wireless network Electricity 19 Expired
US4575683A Apparatus and method for removing an offset signal Electricity 19 Expired
US7132981B1 Method of locating object using phase differences among multiple frequency beacons transmitted from spaced apart transmitter sites Physics 18 Expired
US8576386B2 Detecting particulate contaminants in a fluid Physics 18 Active
US5425052A High impedance directional signal separator for extracting and separating respective signalling components of a wireline full-duplex digital data link Electricity 18 Expired
US4635280A Bit synchronizer for decoding data Electricity 17 Expired
US5317751A Method and apparatus for placing a trainline monitor system in a layup mode Performing Operations; Transporting 17 Expired
US5042052A Carrier acquisition scheme for QAM and QPSK data Electricity 16 Expired

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