Inventor · Madison, WI, US

Robert Wilhelm Schumann

16Patents
9h-index
24Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 7, 1975 → Apr 9, 2007

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6285774A System and methodology for tracing to a source of unauthorized copying of prerecorded proprietary material, such as movies Electricity 235 Expired
US7162642B2 Digital content distribution system and method Electricity 144 Expired
US6240401A System and method for movie transaction processing Physics 141 Expired
US6078328A Compressed video graphics system and methodology Physics 63 Expired
US6950532B1 Visual copyright protection Electricity 42 Expired
US4142146A Digital apparatus for waveform measurement Physics 31 Expired
US7698570B2 Digital content distribution system and method Electricity 31 Active
US7218754B2 Visual copyright protection Electricity 30 Expired
US6923367B1 Safety mailbox Human Necessities 27 Expired
US7277544B1 Local content security system Electricity 8 Expired
US4500182A Photoplotter Physics 8 Expired
US6538969B1 System and method for implementing open and closed file systems on a storage medium Physics 7 Expired
US7668503B1 Secure remote repeater Physics 4 Active
US7346185B2 Optical content modulation for visual copyright protection Electricity 4 Active
US4999791A Computer graphics color film recording method and apparatus Electricity 2 Expired
US7730313B2 Tracing content usage Physics 1 Active

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