Wayne E. Bretl
36Patents
11h-index
15Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 18, 1980 → Aug 27, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6996133B2 | Digital communication system for transmitting and receiving robustly encoded data | Electricity | 144 | Expired |
| US6924753B2 | Robust system for transmitting and receiving map data | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 100 | Expired |
| US6917655B2 | Coding and decoding a signal modified in accordance with the feedback states of an encoder | Electricity | 93 | Expired |
| US6687310B1 | Trellis coded modulation system for digital television signal with trellis coded data and synchronization symbols | Electricity | 79 | Expired |
| US6529558B1 | Coding and decoding a signal modified in accordance with the feedback states of an encoder | Electricity | 46 | Expired |
| US7327790B1 | MPEG on screen display coder for DTV interfaces | Electricity | 42 | Expired |
| US7215714B2 | Robust digital communication system | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US5475438A | Five field motion detector for a TV scan line doubler | Electricity | 34 | Expired |
| US4554581A | STV Decoder with improved data signal recognition capability | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US4370674A | Stabilization network for a cathode ray tube | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US4907248A | Error correction for digital signal transmission | Electricity | 14 | Expired |
| US7558297B2 | Robust digital communication system | Electricity | 10 | Active |
| US4331971A | Mode decision controller for selectively actuating a chrominance bandwith enhancement in a television receiver | Electricity | 9 | Expired |
| US4829523A | Error masking in digital signal transmission | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6762698B2 | Robust system for transmitting and receiving map data | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 8 | Expired |
| US5173774A | Dual purpose HDTV/NTSC receiver | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US7975204B2 | Robust digital communication system | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US4907069A | Two-channel compatible HDTV system | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US6765508B2 | Robust system for transmitting and receiving map data | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US9219629B1 | Adaptive low complexity channel estimation for mobile OFDM systems | Electricity | 7 | Active |
| US6985092B2 | Robust system for transmitting and receiving map data | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 7 | Expired |
| US4296435A | Luminance signal processing circuit | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US7187698B2 | Robust digital communication system | Electricity | 6 | Expired |
| US4342048A | Automatic CRT tracking circuit | Electricity | 5 | Expired |
| US6259481A | Frame to field converter | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.