Inventor · Simpsonville, SC, US

Robert E. Ward

23Patents
7h-index
21Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 8, 1980 → Sep 11, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4323721A Electric cables with improved shielding member Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US5280137A Matte finished cable jacket Electricity 19 Expired
US6318898A Corrosion-resistant bearing and method for making same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US6089758A Molded polymeric bearing housing and method for making same Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 15 Expired
US6062735A Corrosion resistant antifriction bearing and method for making same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US4425475A High-strength flexible twin-lead cable Electricity 8 Expired
US7953973B2 Systems, methods, and computer program products for passively routing secure socket layer (SSL) encoded network traffic Electricity 8 Active
US5643068A Abrading wheel having individual sheet members Performing Operations; Transporting 6 Expired
US6623169B2 Bearing housing incorporating antimicrobial agent Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 6 Expired
US6146021A Method for making a corrosion resistant bearing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US5857781A Bearing apparatus having improved end cover Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 5 Expired
US7007122B2 Method for pre-emptive arbitration Physics 5 Expired
US6934871B2 Programmable counters for setting bus arbitration delays involves counting clock cycles equal to a count number loaded from a memory Physics 4 Expired
US7085903B2 Method, apparatus, and program for improving data mirroring performance in a SCSI topology Physics 3 Expired
US7953908B2 High throughput pipelined data path Physics 3 Active
US6941427B2 Method and apparatus for improving queue traversal time Physics 2 Expired
US7107375B2 Method for improving selection performance by using an arbitration elimination scheme in a SCSI topology Physics 1 Expired
US9870172B2 Address collision avoidance in a memory device Physics 1 Active
USD351773S Abrasive sheet with die-cut pattern General 1 Expired
US7076577B2 Pipeline SCSI nexus associativity circuit Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Expired
US8943255B2 Methods and structure for accounting for connection resets between peripheral component interconnect express bridges and host devices Physics 0 Active
US9274915B2 Sideband logic for monitoring PCIe headers Physics 0 Active
US7701977B2 Method and apparatus to align and standardize packet based parallel interfaces Electricity 0 Active

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