Inventor · Lexington, KY, US

Thomas Jon Eade

24Patents
11h-index
35Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 1, 1993 → Apr 14, 2006

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5923820A Method and apparatus for compacting swath data for printers Physics 29 Expired
US5480240A Print quality enhancement method and apparatus Physics 27 Expired
US6176569A Transitional ink jet heater addressing Performing Operations; Transporting 27 Expired
US6116717A Method and apparatus for customized control of a print cartridge Performing Operations; Transporting 22 Expired
US6081280A Method and apparatus for inhibiting electrically induced ink build-up on flexible, integrated circuit connecting leads, for thermal ink jet printer heads Performing Operations; Transporting 20 Expired
US6017112A Ink jet printing apparatus having a print cartridge with primary and secondary nozzles Performing Operations; Transporting 19 Expired
US6183063A Angled printer cartridge Performing Operations; Transporting 18 Expired
US6823133B1 Apparatus and method for electronic control of DC motor using an all-digital phase-locked loop Physics 18 Expired
US6312079A Print head drive scheme for serial compression of I/O in ink jets Performing Operations; Transporting 17 Expired
US5970220A Printer having universal image port and related system and method Electricity 15 Expired
US6302514A Method and apparatus for automatically correcting the fire timing of a printhead carrier due to linear encoder velocity errors Performing Operations; Transporting 13 Expired
US5970221A Printer with reduced memory Physics 10 Expired
US6092888A Method of transmitting raster information from a host computer to an ink jet printer and corresponding method of printing Physics 9 Expired
US6954278B1 Dynamic printer operating system Physics 8 Expired
US5912683A Method of printing with an ink jet printer using an enhanced horizontal resolution Electricity 8 Expired
US5790144A Method of controlling an operating temperature of a printhead in an ink jet cartridge assembly Performing Operations; Transporting 6 Expired
US7580564B2 Method of an image processor for transforming a n-bit data packet to a m-bit data packet using a lookup table Electricity 6 Expired
US5971518A Method of printing with an ink jet printer to inhibit the formation of a print artifact Performing Operations; Transporting 6 Expired
US6563285B1 Stepper motor control system Performing Operations; Transporting 5 Expired
US7063399B2 Imaging apparatus and method for facilitating printing Performing Operations; Transporting 1 Expired
US7652787B2 Architecture and memory card for hand-held printer Performing Operations; Transporting 0 Active
US6857723B2 Method, printer and printhead driver for printing using two printheads Performing Operations; Transporting 0 Expired
US7651183B2 Imaging apparatus for facilitating printing Performing Operations; Transporting 0 Active
US7158255B2 Method for printing shingling print data Physics 0 Expired

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