Inventor · Normal, IL, US

Thomas E. Anderson

47Patents
12h-index
35Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 21, 1974 → Feb 22, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7444404B2 Network traffic regulation including consistency based detection and filtering of packets with spoof source addresses Electricity 357 Expired
US4060751A Dual mode solid state inverter circuit for starting and ballasting gas discharge lamps Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 79 Expired
US4574222A Ballast circuit for multiple parallel negative impedance loads Electricity 52 Expired
US7058015B1 Distributed solution for regulating network traffic Electricity 36 Expired
US4591942A Current sensing transformer assembly Physics 27 Expired
US4086525A Circuit for preventing overdischarge of a battery Physics 26 Expired
US5739502A Laser intensity redistribution Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 22 Expired
US4639933A Steering logic circuit for a digital data transceiver Electricity 19 Expired
US8271678B2 Independent detection and filtering of undesirable packets Electricity 16 Active
US4320325A Circuit for starting and ballasting arc discharge lamps Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US6801503B1 Progressive and distributed regulation of selected network traffic destined for a network node Electricity 13 Expired
US4340843A Keep-alive circuit for gas discharge lamp Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US4408270A Stored charge inverter circuit with rapid switching Electricity 12 Expired
US7970886B1 Detecting and preventing undesirable network traffic from being sourced out of a network domain Electricity 12 Expired
US4636906A Solid state circuit interruption employing a stored charge power transistor Electricity 11 Expired
US4454574A Push-pull stored charge inverter circuit with rapid switching Electricity 10 Expired
US7475141B1 Distributed service level management for network traffic Electricity 9 Expired
US4429359A Inverter circuit with symmetry control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US8509086B2 Detecting network misuse Electricity 8 Active
US4107771A Circuit for shutting down an inverter Electricity 8 Expired
US4359669A Lamp modulating circuitry Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US6500269B2 Method of cleaning turbine component using laser shock peening Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US8512471B2 Halosilane assisted PVT growth of SiC Chemistry; Metallurgy 7 Active
US4100587A Circuit for detecting the flow of an excess of reverse power from a load to a power system Electricity 6 Expired
US4492881A Stored charge inverter circuit Electricity 6 Expired

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