Robert Ward
16Patents
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21Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 17, 1977 → Feb 25, 2004
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4214020A | Processes for coating bundles of hollow fiber membranes | Performing Operations; Transporting | 123 | Expired |
| US6650803B1 | Method and apparatus for optical to electrical to optical conversion in an optical cross-connect switch | Electricity | 40 | Expired |
| US6571030B1 | Optical cross-connect switching system | Electricity | 32 | Expired |
| US4157960A | Method for enhancing membrane separation | Performing Operations; Transporting | 27 | Expired |
| US6597826B1 | Optical cross-connect switching system with bridging, test access and redundancy | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US6425430B1 | Apparatus for making composite sheet | Textiles; Paper | 23 | Expired |
| US6947623B2 | Signals and methods for increasing reliability in optical network equipment | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US7110668B2 | Optical network connection test apparatus and methods | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US6813407B2 | Method and apparatus for bridging optical signals in an optical network | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US7181138B1 | Optical network connection test apparatus and methods | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US6179946A | Process for making composite sheet | Textiles; Paper | 6 | Expired |
| US8971706B2 | Link discovery, verification, and failure isolation in an optical communication system | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US6944364B2 | Method and apparatus for regenerating optical signals in an all-optical cross-connect switch | Electricity | 1 | Expired |
| US8018838B2 | Apparatus and method for protection switching in a network | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US7042922B2 | Method for calibrating photonic crossconnect device | Physics | 0 | Expired |
| US7072031B2 | Alignment laser for use in cross-connects | Physics | 0 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.