Wayne T. Holcombe
38Patents
13h-index
18Co-inventors
78Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 26, 1979 → Aug 11, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.