Robert S. Block
37Patents
19h-index
32Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: May 4, 1976 → Oct 2, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4484217A | Method and system for remote reporting, particularly for pay television billing | Electricity | 352 | Expired |
| US4528589A | Method and system for subscription television billing and access | Electricity | 248 | Expired |
| US4225884A | Method and system for subscription television billing and access | Electricity | 245 | Expired |
| US5960416A | Real time subscriber billing at a subscriber location in an unstructured communication network | Electricity | 241 | Expired |
| US7379791B2 | Integrated metrology systems and information and control apparatus for interaction with integrated metrology systems | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 193 | Expired |
| US6675384B1 | Method and apparatus for information labeling and control | Electricity | 180 | Expired |
| US4163254A | Method and system for subscription television billing and access | Electricity | 179 | Expired |
| US4398216A | Multiple signal transmission method and system, particularly for television | Electricity | 176 | Expired |
| US4405942A | Method and system for secure transmission and reception of video information, particularly for television | Electricity | 150 | Expired |
| US4104486A | System for accumulating data over nondedicated telephone lines | Electricity | 148 | Expired |
| US4126762A | Method and system for accumulating data over nondedicated telephone lines | Electricity | 134 | Expired |
| US8639390B2 | Integrated metrology systems and information and control apparatus for interaction with integrated metrology system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 130 | Active |
| US4410911A | Multiple signal transmission method and system, particularly for television | Electricity | 124 | Expired |
| US6377938B1 | Real time subscriber billing system and method | Electricity | 120 | Expired |
| US7200852B1 | Method and apparatus for information labeling and control | Electricity | 77 | Expired |
| US6947947B2 | Method for adding metadata to data | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 64 | Expired |
| US6305942A | Method and apparatus for increased language fluency through interactive comprehension, recognition and generation of sounds, words and sentences | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| USD249918S | Mug | General | 33 | Expired |
| US6904868B2 | Interactive mobile food dispenser | Human Necessities | 28 | Expired |
| USD251228S | Tray | General | 15 | Expired |
| US7822654B2 | Business analysis tool | Physics | 14 | Expired |
| US5091935A | Method and system for scrambling information signals | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US6450924B1 | Finger exercise device | Human Necessities | 8 | Expired |
| USD255200S | Mug | General | 5 | Expired |
| US8210165B2 | Light concentrator structures and methods | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.