Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

Wayne T. Holcombe

38Patents
13h-index
18Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 26, 1979 → Aug 11, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4383257A Message communication system with message storage Physics 170 Expired
US4369443A Message communication system with message storage Physics 114 Expired
US8041227B2 Apparatus and method for near-field communication Electricity 105 Active
US7486386B1 Optical reflectance proximity sensor Electricity 104 Active
US5946393A Data access arrangement Electricity 57 Expired
US4647721A Telephone activated power controller Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 54 Expired
US6169765A Apparatus and method for output signal pulse width error correction in a communications receiver Electricity 30 Expired
US6360090B1 Method and apparatus for receiving infrared signals with improved noise immunity Electricity 28 Expired
US5864591A Apparatus and method for suppression of feedback in a communications receiver Electricity 28 Expired
US6556330B2 Apparatus and method for an integrated photodiode in an infrared receiver Electricity 20 Expired
US5125026A Internal telephone intercom system Electricity 19 Expired
US6690078B1 Shielded planar dielectrically isolated high speed pin photodiode and method for producing same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US8704152B2 Apparatus and circuit with a multi-directional arrangement of optical elements Physics 13 Active
US6240283A Apparatus and method for feedback mitigation in a low speed communications receiver Electricity 13 Expired
US7031458B2 Method and apparatus for isolation in a data access arrangement using analog encoded pulse signaling Electricity 11 Expired
US6198118A Distributed photodiode structure Electricity 10 Expired
US8754775B2 Use of optical reflectance proximity detector for nuisance mitigation in smoke alarms Physics 10 Active
US6628489B1 Battery and current reversal protect circuit Electricity 8 Expired
US6356375B1 Apparatus and method for an integrated photodiode in an infrared receiver Electricity 7 Expired
US8660300B2 Apparatus and method for optical gesture recognition Physics 7 Active
US8363894B2 Apparatus and method for implementing a touchless slider Physics 6 Active
US6548878B1 Method for producing a thin distributed photodiode structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US7868294B2 Apparatus and method for display control using ambient light measurement signal from an infrared receiver Electricity 4 Active
US8253613B2 Second-order delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter Physics 3 Active
US7482666B2 Apparatus and method for optical isolation Electricity 3 Active

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