Steven P. Hotelling
211Patents
35h-index
195Co-inventors
93Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 4, 1990 → Apr 24, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8279180B2 | Multipoint touch surface controller | Physics | 1,000 | Active |
| US8031094B2 | Touch controller with improved analog front end | Physics | 817 | Active |
| US7656393B2 | Electronic device having display and surrounding touch sensitive bezel for user interface and control | Physics | 639 | Active |
| US7957762B2 | Using ambient light sensor to augment proximity sensor output | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 603 | Active |
| US9201547B2 | Wide dynamic range capacitive sensing | Physics | 357 | Active |
| US5825350A | Electronic pointing apparatus and method | Physics | 306 | Expired |
| US7538760B2 | Force imaging input device and system | Physics | 257 | Active |
| US5138154A | Shaft angle encoder with rotating off-axis interference pattern | Physics | 239 | Expired |
| US5698784A | Vibratory rate gyroscope and methods of assembly and operation | Physics | 223 | Expired |
| US8098233B2 | Wide touchpad on a portable computer | Physics | 158 | Active |
| US7859521B2 | Integrated touch screen | Physics | 155 | Active |
| US7812827B2 | Simultaneous sensing arrangement | Physics | 119 | Active |
| US8125463B2 | Multipoint touchscreen | Physics | 113 | Active |
| US7561146B1 | Method and apparatus to reject accidental contact on a touchpad | Physics | 91 | Expired |
| US8638320B2 | Stylus orientation detection | Physics | 86 | Active |
| US8217913B2 | Integrated touch screen | Physics | 81 | Active |
| US9952095B1 | Methods and systems for modulation and demodulation of optical signals | Physics | 69 | Active |
| US7428142B1 | Lid-closed detector | Physics | 59 | Expired |
| US8537126B2 | Integrated touch sensitive display gate driver | Physics | 56 | Active |
| US5594169A | Optically sensed wire gyroscope apparatus and system, and methods for manufacture and cursor control | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 55 | Expired |
| US7834855B2 | Wide touchpad on a portable computer | Physics | 52 | Active |
| US9047009B2 | Electronic device having display and surrounding touch sensitive bezel for user interface and control | Physics | 51 | Active |
| US10038361B2 | Haptic actuator including flexible flexure bearings having a wishbone shape and related methods | Electricity | 48 | Active |
| US7728823B2 | System and method for processing raw data of track pad device | Physics | 48 | Active |
| US8593410B2 | Touch sensor panel design | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.