William E. Powell
23Patents
12h-index
54Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: May 24, 1977 → May 13, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5185736A | Synchronous optical transmission system | Electricity | 342 | Expired |
| US7376451B2 | Measurement and treatment system and method | Human Necessities | 95 | Expired |
| US5081654A | Parallel bit detection circuit for detecting frame synchronization information imbedded within a serial bit stream and method for carrying out same | Electricity | 45 | Expired |
| US6111878A | Low jitter timing recovery technique and device for asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) constant bit rate (CBR) payloads | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US5790614A | Synchronized clock using a non-pullable reference oscillator | Electricity | 35 | Expired |
| US5031129A | Parallel pseudo-random generator for emulating a serial pseudo-random generator and method for carrying out same | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US5708687A | Synchronized clock using a non-pullable reference oscillator | Electricity | 26 | Expired |
| US6817139B1 | Bug killing system | Human Necessities | 26 | Expired |
| US5349310A | Digitally controlled fractional frequency synthesizer | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| US5402452A | Incremental phase smoothing desynchronizer and calculation apparatus | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US5404380A | Desynchronizer for adjusting the read data rate of payload data received over a digital communication network transmitting payload data within frames | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US5754607A | Method and apparatus for achieving fast phase settling in a phase locked loop | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Expired |
| US5528530A | Calculation apparatus for performing algebraic and logic computations using iterative calculations and storage of intermediate results | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US7366374B1 | Multilayer optic device and an imaging system and method using same | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US4977478A | Contact status detector | Electricity | 10 | Expired |
| US4116565A | Electrophoretic analyzer with automatic reference circuit | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US4118781A | Valley sensor for an electrophoretic analyzer | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US9853780B2 | Dynamic HARQ-id reservation | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US10567264B2 | Protocol test device and method for operating a protocol test device | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US10536364B2 | Protocol test device and method for operating a protocol test device | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US10375589B2 | Mobile communication test device and a corresponding method | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US9872643B2 | Measurement and treatment system and method | Human Necessities | 0 | Active |
| US10069543B2 | Multiple input multiple output, MIMO, baseband apparatus | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.