Inventor · Troutville, VA, US

Robert M. Harman

22Patents
7h-index
26Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 9, 2002 → Jan 6, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6914411B2 Power supply and method for controlling it Electricity 87 Expired
US7095403B2 User interface of a keypad entry system for character input Electricity 65 Expired
US7466859B2 Candidate list enhancement for predictive text input in electronic devices Physics 65 Active
US7187365B2 Indic intermediate code and electronic device therefor Physics 16 Expired
US7513752B2 Beam pump dynamic load monitoring and methods Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 14 Expired
US7343800B2 Linear position indicator system and method Physics 13 Active
US9476294B2 Device and method for discrete distributed optical fiber pressure sensing Physics 8 Active
US7450627B2 Wireless communication synchronization Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Expired
US7382291B2 Numeric keypad having keys assigned multiple-strokes for ideographic character input Physics 4 Active
US8208767B2 Sensor array configuration for extending useful sensing length of a swept-wavelength interferometry based system Physics 4 Active
US8681322B2 Distance measurement using incoherent optical reflectometry Physics 4 Active
US8557052B2 Method and apparatus for stripping optical fibers and optical fiber assemblies Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US9267821B2 Combined swept-carrier and swept-modulation frequency optical frequency domain reflectometry Physics 3 Active
US8950472B2 System for monitoring linearity of down-hole pumping systems during deployment and related methods Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 3 Active
US9200508B2 Method and apparatus for monitoring vibration using fiber optic sensors Fixed Constructions 2 Active
US9546915B2 Enhancing functionality of reflectometry based systems using parallel mixing operations Physics 2 Active
US8942527B2 Extended temperature fiber optic cable design Physics 2 Active
US8793102B2 Multi-gap interferometric sensors Physics 1 Active
US8558994B2 EFPI sensor Physics 1 Active
US9341054B2 System for monitoring linearity of down-hole pumping systems during deployment and related methods Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 1 Active
US8474782B2 System and method for effective isolation of an interferometer Physics 0 Active
US8984956B2 Sensing assembly Physics 0 Active

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