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Timo Pfau — 15 Patents

Alcatel Lucent: 9 patents #365 of 4,169Top 9%
ACAcacia Communications: 4 patents #17 of 55Top 35%
USUniversitat Stuttgart: 1 patents #63 of 240Top 30%
Somerville, MA: #190 of 2,735 inventorsTop 7%
Massachusetts: #8,211 of 88,656 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Timo Pfau has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Alcatel Lucent. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in March 2025. Timo Pfau ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Timo Pfau in Somerville, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2015.peak 42011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2014: 2 patents20142015: 4 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12255765 Systems and methods of probabilistic constellation shaping — 2025-03-18
11838054 Side channel communication for an optical coherent transceiver Jonas Geyer 2023-12-05
11239919 Side channel communication for an optical coherent transceiver Jonas Geyer 2022-02-01
11115250 MPPM encoder and decoder — 2021-09-07
10567209 Geometrically shaping QAM modulation Mehmet Aydinlik, Christian Rasmussen 2020-02-18 $30,819,000
9768883 Low power equalizer for an optical receiver Noriaki Kaneda, Jeffrey Lee 2017-09-19
9264146 Detection and removal of cycle slip from received signals Xiang Liu, Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan, Giancarlo Gavioli 2016-02-16 $1,612,000
9166628 Use of parity-check coding for carrier-phase estimation in an optical transport system — 2015-10-20 $2,234,000
9036999 Frame/symbol synchronization in coherent optical OFDM Noriaki Kaneda, Qi Yang 2015-05-19 $1,780,000
8995834 Blind equalization for polarization-switched QPSK optical communications Brian Krongold, Noriaki Kaneda 2015-03-31 $1,696,000
8983294 Forward error correction for an optical transport system Noriaki Kaneda, Brian Krongold 2015-03-17 $1,926,000
8903238 Ultra dense WDM with agile and flexible DSP add-drop Noriaki Kaneda, Young-Kai Chen 2014-12-02 $2,024,000
8693888 Noise-resilient constellations for an optical transport system — 2014-04-08 $2,393,000
8301037 Iterative carrier-phase estimation and data recovery for coherent optical receivers — 2012-10-30
7941058 Device and method for decoding an optical multi-level DPSK signal Michael Ohm 2011-05-10

Frequent Collaborators

Noriaki Kaneda5 shared
Brian Krongold2 shared
Jonas Geyer2 shared
Xiang Liu1 shared
Jeffrey Lee1 shared
Young-Kai Chen1 shared

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