Inventor · Cary, NC, US

Scott Vance

32Patents
15h-index
22Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 30, 1998 → Jan 23, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6179849A Sutureless closure for connecting a bypass graft to a target vessel Human Necessities 207 Expired
US6437682B1 Pressure sensitive direction switches Electricity 200 Expired
US7962854B2 Systems, methods and computer program products for displaying content on multiple display screens using handheld wireless communicators Electricity 116 Active
US6980154B2 Planar inverted F antennas including current nulls between feed and ground couplings and related communications devices Electricity 91 Expired
US6304840A Fingerless glove for interacting with data processing system Physics 91 Expired
US6903686B2 Multi-branch planar antennas having multiple resonant frequency bands and wireless terminals incorporating the same Electricity 72 Expired
US7162264B2 Tunable parasitic resonators Electricity 68 Expired
US6943733B2 Multi-band planar inverted-F antennas including floating parasitic elements and wireless terminals incorporating the same Electricity 61 Expired
US7376408B2 Reduction of near field electro-magnetic scattering using high impedance metallization terminations Electricity 50 Expired
US6498600B1 Electronic devices including keypads that illuminate in response to proximity of a user and methods of operating such electronic devices Electricity 38 Expired
US6313731A Pressure sensitive direction switches Electricity 35 Expired
US6537287B1 Sutureless closure for connecting a bypass graft to a target vessel Human Necessities 31 Expired
US7546130B2 Methods, devices, and computer program products for providing multiple operational modes in a mobile terminal Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Active
US6389302B1 Methods and apparatus for causing wireless communication devices to vibrate via piezo-ceramic vibrators Electricity 24 Expired
US7265731B2 Method and apparatus for improving the performance of a multi-band antenna in a wireless terminal Electricity 20 Expired
US8095081B2 Device and method for hands-free push-to-talk functionality Electricity 15 Active
US7526326B2 Handheld wireless communicators with reduced free-space, near-field emissions Electricity 10 Active
US6909402B2 Looped multi-branch planar antennas having multiple resonant frequency bands and wireless terminals incorporating the same Electricity 9 Expired
US7109924B2 Multi-band antenna systems including a plurality of separate low-band frequency antennas, wireless terminals and radiotelephones incorporating the same Electricity 9 Expired
US6995716B2 Selectively engaged antenna matching for a mobile terminal Electricity 8 Expired
US8942761B2 Two port antennas with separate antenna branches including respective filters Electricity 7 Active
US9020447B2 Electronic devices, methods, and computer program products for making a change to an antenna element based on a power level of a transmission power amplifier Electricity 5 Active
US6966920B2 Sutureless closure for connecting a bypass graft to a target vessel Human Necessities 5 Expired
US8456366B2 Communications structures including antennas with separate antenna branches coupled to feed and ground conductors Electricity 4 Active
US7561686B2 Mobile terminal Electricity 4 Active

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