Inventor · Corning, NY, US

Richard E. Wagner

42Patents
19h-index
41Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 14, 1977 → Sep 10, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8138925B2 RFID systems and methods for automatically detecting and/or directing the physical configuration of a complex system Electricity 232 Active
US7965186B2 Passive RFID elements having visual indicators Physics 92 Active
US7782202B2 Radio frequency identification of component connections Physics 89 Active
US4208094A Optical switch Physics 73 Expired
US4176908A Devices for monitoring, switching, attenuating or distributing light Electricity 72 Expired
US7772975B2 System for mapping connections using RFID function Physics 60 Active
US4474424A Optical multi/demultiplexer using interference filters Physics 50 Expired
US8264366B2 Components, systems, and methods for associating sensor data with component location Electricity 49 Active
US7760094B1 RFID systems and methods for optical fiber network deployment and maintenance Electricity 39 Active
US7855697B2 Antenna systems for passive RFID tags Electricity 37 Active
US4261638A Optical switch with rotating, reflective, concave surface Physics 36 Expired
US4225250A Segmented-ring magnet print head Performing Operations; Transporting 31 Expired
US8421626B2 Radio frequency identification transponder for communicating condition of a component Electricity 31 Active
US6414765B1 Protection switch in a two-fiber optical channel shared protection ring Electricity 31 Expired
US7547150B2 Optically addressed RFID elements Electricity 29 Active
US6616349B1 Two-fiber interconnected ring architecture Electricity 27 Expired
US7410637B2 Transgenic algae for delivering antigens to an animal Chemistry; Metallurgy 27 Expired
US8264355B2 RFID systems and methods for optical fiber network deployment and maintenance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Active
US5881786A Method of producing wood strips for conversion into composite lumber products Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
USD313736S Trigger-actuated glue gun General 17 Expired
US9159012B2 RFID condition latching Physics 16 Active
US7667574B2 Signal-processing systems and methods for RFID-tag signals Physics 12 Active
US6224704A Method for manufacture of structural wood products Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US8731405B2 RFID-based systems and methods for collecting telecommunications network information Electricity 10 Active
US6001452A Engineered structural wood products Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired

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