Steven B. Elgee
75Patents
20h-index
82Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 30, 1992 → Jul 18, 2022
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6164743A | Ink container with an inductive ink level sense | Performing Operations; Transporting | 77 | Expired |
| US5929875A | Acoustic and ultrasonic monitoring of inkjet droplets | Performing Operations; Transporting | 71 | Expired |
| US6179419A | Belt driven media handling system with feedback control for improving media advance accuracy | Performing Operations; Transporting | 70 | Expired |
| US5583545A | Ink level detection in a pressure regulated pen | Physics | 66 | Expired |
| US6255665A | Print media and method of detecting a characteristic of a substrate of print media used in a printing device | Performing Operations; Transporting | 59 | Expired |
| US6412901B1 | Acoustic and ultrasonic monitoring of inkjet droplets | Performing Operations; Transporting | 40 | Expired |
| US6315383A | Method and apparatus for ink-jet drop trajectory and alignment error detection and correction | Performing Operations; Transporting | 39 | Expired |
| US5583547A | Drop count-based ink-jet pen servicing method | Performing Operations; Transporting | 38 | Expired |
| US5856833A | Optical sensor for ink jet printing system | Performing Operations; Transporting | 38 | Expired |
| US6536894B1 | Print media heating techniques for a vacuum belt hard copy apparatus | Performing Operations; Transporting | 36 | Expired |
| US5774074A | Multi-track position encoder system | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US6318854A | Inkjet printing media handling system with advancing guide shim | Performing Operations; Transporting | 33 | Expired |
| US6217168A | Transparency detection in a tray | Performing Operations; Transporting | 33 | Expired |
| US6231153A | Method and apparatus for controlling an ink-jet print head temperature | Performing Operations; Transporting | 30 | Expired |
| US6568786B2 | Method and apparatus for ink-jet drop trajectory and alignment error detection and correction | Performing Operations; Transporting | 29 | Expired |
| US6213659A | Print medium loading error detection for use in printing devices | Performing Operations; Transporting | 26 | Expired |
| US5351068A | Ink-jet printer carriage and paper motion overlap method and apparatus | Performing Operations; Transporting | 23 | Expired |
| US5583421A | Sepic converter with transformerless line isolation | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US6254081A | Regulating vacuum hold of media in a printer | Performing Operations; Transporting | 21 | Expired |
| US6571702B2 | Printer with vacuum platen having bimetallic valve sheet providing selectable active area | Performing Operations; Transporting | 21 | Expired |
| US6312082A | Clear fluid ink-jet pen alignment | Performing Operations; Transporting | 20 | Expired |
| US6289730A | Paper size detection using ultrasound | Performing Operations; Transporting | 19 | Expired |
| US6454383B2 | Clear fluid ink-jet pen alignment | Performing Operations; Transporting | 19 | Expired |
| US6017114A | Shifted element scanning/printing routine coordinated with media advance | Electricity | 18 | Expired |
| US6260941A | Acoustic and ultrasonic monitoring of inkjet droplets | Performing Operations; Transporting | 18 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.