Robert M. Pierce
18Patents
9h-index
28Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: May 30, 1975 → Mar 14, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6882358B1 | Apparatus, system and method for enabling eye-to-eye contact in video conferences | Electricity | 89 | Expired |
| US4040252A | Catalytic premixing combustor | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 53 | Expired |
| US6868236B2 | Apparatus and method for combining multiple optical beams in a free-space optical communications system | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| US8077294B1 | Optical autocovariance lidar | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 40 | Active |
| US4099373A | Vented igniter | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 26 | Expired |
| US6724508B2 | Internal reflection apparatus and method using a holographic optical element for a free space optical communication system | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6810175B1 | Off-axis mode scrambler | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US5005927A | Nonlinear optical microscope | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6967754B2 | Hybrid optical transceivers for free space optical communication | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US4051670A | Suction vent at recirculation zone of combustor | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 9 | Expired |
| US6801687B2 | Apparatus and method for generating a mode-scrambled optical signal using a VCSEL array | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US10404403B2 | Systems and methods for multiplexing and demodulation at high frequencies and increased communication bandwidth | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US7072543B2 | Extended source transmitter for free space optical communication systems | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US6895146B1 | Mode scrambler | Physics | 6 | Expired |
| US6972904B2 | Pointable optical transceivers for free space optical communication | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US7929215B1 | Field widening lens | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US8314992B1 | Field widening lens | Physics | 0 | Active |
| USRE44472E1 | Extended source transmitter for free space optical communication systems | General | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.