Inventor · Grass Valley, CA, US

Ronald E. Milner

17Patents
13h-index
9Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 16, 1976 → Jun 8, 2004

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4796891A Musical puzzle using sliding tiles Human Necessities 122 Expired
US5172534A Chainable building blocks Fixed Constructions 99 Expired
US4314236A Apparatus for producing a plurality of audio sound effects Physics 98 Expired
US4116444A Method for generating a plurality of moving objects on a video display screen Human Necessities 73 Expired
US4862152A Sonic positioning device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 60 Expired
US5276909A Traffic information broadcast system Electricity 47 Expired
US4687457A Hand-held puppet with pseudo-voice generation Human Necessities 38 Expired
US4139968A Puppet-like apparatus Human Necessities 38 Expired
US4107665A Apparatus for continuous variation of object size on a raster type video screen Human Necessities 35 Expired
US5095799A Electric stringless toy guitar Physics 35 Expired
US4112422A Method and apparatus for generating moving objects on a video display screen Human Necessities 24 Expired
USD324692S Guitar or similar article General 14 Expired
US4589138A Method and apparatus for voice emulation Human Necessities 13 Expired
US4102532A Game method and apparatus for sensing the position of an object with respect to its receptacle Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 6 Expired
US6990921B2 Self-waving flag Physics 4 Expired
US4244574A Pinball machine with conical playfield Human Necessities 4 Expired
US4914638A Doppler effect speedometer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired

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