Inventor · Aberdeen, NJ, US

Roland Ryf

65Patents
12h-index
36Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 3, 2001 → Mar 31, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6704475B2 Mirror for use with a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) optical device and a method of manufacture therefor Physics 26 Expired
US6618184B2 Device for use with a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) optical device and a method of manufacture therefor Physics 24 Expired
US6757458B2 Optical MEMS switch with converging beams Physics 22 Expired
US6704476B2 Optical MEMS switch with imaging system Physics 20 Expired
US7016098B2 Optical device with configurable channel allocation Electricity 18 Expired
US6882770B2 Imaging technique for use with optical MEMS devices Physics 16 Expired
US7502160B2 Speckle reduction in laser-projector images Physics 16 Active
US9077455B2 Optical receiver having a MIMO equalizer Electricity 15 Active
US8355638B2 Receiver for optical transverse-mode-multiplexed signals Electricity 15 Active
US7149407B1 Orthogonal heterodyne optical signal-to-noise-ratio (OSNR) monitoring method and apparatus Electricity 15 Expired
US8129669B2 System and method generating multi-color light for image display having a controller for temporally interleaving the first and second time intervals of directed first and second light beams Electricity 14 Active
US8109638B2 Diffuser configuration for an image projector Physics 14 Active
US7440158B2 Direct optical image projectors Physics 12 Active
US8247999B2 Time division multiplexing a DC-to-DC voltage converter Electricity 11 Active
US8320769B2 Transverse-mode multiplexing for optical communication systems Electricity 11 Active
US8223188B2 Monitor having integral camera and method of operating the same Physics 10 Active
US7580175B2 Detector of infrared radiation having a bi-material transducer Physics 9 Active
US6647172B2 Imaging technique for use with optical MEMS devices Physics 9 Expired
US8822905B2 Optical mode couplers for multi-mode optical fibers Physics 8 Active
US8538275B2 Multimode optical communication Physics 8 Active
US8582933B2 Scalable waveguide-mode coupler for an optical receiver or transmitter Physics 7 Active
US10345192B2 Single-end optical fiber transfer matrix measurement using spatial pilot Electricity 6 Active
US9411100B2 Photonic lantern spatial multiplexers with mode selectivity Physics 6 Active
US8391655B2 Waveguide coupler for optical transverse-mode multiplexing Physics 5 Active
US7851759B2 Infrared imaging apparatus Physics 4 Active

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