Thomas Mayer
87Patents
10h-index
75Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 22, 1978 → May 4, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4222711A | Sump pump control system | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 96 | Expired |
| US4811578A | Padlock with tamper-actuated audible and/or inaudible alarm | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 53 | Expired |
| US6856103B1 | Voltage regulator for line powered linear and switching power supply | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 38 | Expired |
| US6259977A | Aircraft flight data analysis system and method | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US7570370B2 | Method and an apparatus for the determination of the 3D coordinates of an object | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US6650070B1 | Point of use lighting controller | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US4795945A | Starting circuit for high intensity gaseous discharge lamps | Electricity | 11 | Expired |
| US5953114A | Method of determining measurement-point position data and device for measuring the magnification of an optical beam path | Human Necessities | 11 | Expired |
| US7456973B2 | Method and device for the contour and/or deformation measurement, particularly the interference measurement, of an object | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US6043890A | Arrangement for determining the position of a surgical microscope | Human Necessities | 10 | Expired |
| US8598929B1 | Bitwidth reduction in loop filters used for digital PLLS | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US5841149A | Method of determining the distance of a feature on an object from a microscope, and a device for carrying out the method | Human Necessities | 10 | Expired |
| US6979955B2 | Deriving power for a wireless network component from the power source of a fluorescent light | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US7084574B2 | Fluorescent light power source for supplying power to an external device | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US6078032A | Hot water beverage maker with voltage transformer type water heating unit | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Expired |
| US7592874B2 | Phase/frequency detector, phase locked loop, method for phase/frequency detection and method for generating an oscillator signal | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US8791733B2 | Non-linear-error correction in fractional-N digital PLL frequency synthesizer | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US8228219B2 | Time-to-digital converter with calibration | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US8094322B2 | Method and apparatus for the determination of the 3D coordinates of an object | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US5300863A | Auxiliary lighting circuit for a gaseous discharge lamp | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US7397194B2 | Auxiliary quartz lamp lighting system for high intensity discharge lamp ballasts | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US7573347B2 | Digitally controlled oscillator device and method for generating an oscillating signal with a digitally controlled phase locked loop | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US7420485B2 | Sigma-delta modulator and method for sigma-delta modulation | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US7545232B2 | Polar modulator arrangement and polar modulation method | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US8058917B2 | Compensation of phase lock loop (PLL) phase distribution caused by power amplifier ramping | Electricity | 4 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.