Inventor · Somerville, MA, US

William Babbitt

35Patents
10h-index
25Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 30, 1985 → Mar 27, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5812318A Apparatus and methods for routing of optical beams via time-domain spatial-spectral filtering Physics 42 Expired
US9559486B2 Precise broadband frequency modulated laser Electricity 29 Active
US7184424B2 Multiplexing storage element interface Electricity 25 Expired
US8913636B2 Precise broadband frequency modulated laser Electricity 24 Active
US5239548A Optical signal processor for processing continuous signal data Physics 20 Expired
US4670854A Optical cross-correlation and convolution apparatus Physics 16 Expired
US7265712B2 Method and apparatus for processing high time-bandwidth signals using a material with inhomogeneously broadened absorption spectrum Physics 14 Expired
US7620981B2 Virtual devices and virtual bus tunnels, modules and methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US8387132B2 Information packet communication with virtual objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US6819460B1 Apparatus and methods for routing of optical beams via time-domain spatial-spectral filtering Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US7742473B2 Accelerator module Electricity 10 Active
US5030824A Optical position sensor employing encoder delay Physics 9 Expired
US7471224B2 Broadband analog to digital conversion using analog spectral recording Electricity 9 Active
US7145713B2 Techniques for recovering optical spectral features using a chirped optical field Physics 8 Expired
US4930133A Multiple laser frequency stabilization Electricity 7 Expired
US7643476B2 Communication protocols, systems and methods Electricity 7 Active
US7602773B2 Transferring data to a target device Electricity 7 Expired
US7379652B2 Method and apparatus for detecting optical spectral properties using optical probe beams with multiple sidebands Physics 6 Expired
US9853733B2 Techniques for single sideband suppressed carrier (SSBSC) optical signals Electricity 6 Active
US9020360B2 Techniques for single sideband suppressed carrier (SSBSC) optical signals that scale to bandwidths over 20 gigahertz Electricity 6 Active
US7916727B2 Low level storage protocols, systems and methods Electricity 5 Active
US7698526B2 Adapted disk drives executing instructions for I/O command processing Electricity 5 Active
US6680860B1 Optical coherent transient continuously programmed continuous processor Physics 5 Expired
US7870271B2 Disk drive partitioning methods and apparatus Electricity 4 Active
US8473578B2 Data storage devices having IP capable partitions Electricity 4 Active

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