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Robert William Tkach — 38 Patents

ATAT&T: 29 patents #531 of 18,772Top 3%
Alcatel Lucent: 8 patents #425 of 4,169Top 15%
American Telephone And Telegraph: 2 patents #45 of 699Top 7%
LILgs Innovations: 2 patents #12 of 62Top 20%
Little Silver, NJ: #6 of 102 inventorsTop 6%
New Jersey: #1,502 of 69,400 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
Robert William Tkach has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at AT&T. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in March 2016. Robert William Tkach ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Robert William Tkach in Little Silver, NJ, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9300400 Communication through multiplexed one-dimensional optical signals Xiang Liu, Peter J. Winzer, Andrew R. Chraplyvy, Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan 2016-03-29
8934786 Communication through pre-dispersion-compensated phase-conjugated optical variants Xiang Liu, Peter J. Winzer, Andrew R. Chraplyvy 2015-01-13 $1,757,000
8879922 System, method and apparatus for high-sensitivity optical detection Xiang Liu, Andrew R. Chraplyvy 2014-11-04 $1,676,000
8744275 System, method, and apparatus for high-sensitivity optical detection Xiang Liu, Thomas H. Wood 2014-06-03
8682181 System, method, and apparatus for high-sensitivity optical detection Xiang Liu, Thomas H. Wood 2014-03-25 $1,561,000
8594515 Digital phase conjugation for fiber-optic links Xiang Liu, Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan 2013-11-26 $3,767,000
8483575 Apparatus and method for generating frequency-locked optical comb sources Xiang Liu, Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan 2013-07-09 $1,616,000
8204377 System, method and apparatus for joint self phase modulation compensation for coherent optical polarization-division-multiplexed orthogonal-frequency division-multiplexing systems Xiang Liu 2012-06-19 $1,186,000
8180227 Digital coherent detection of multi-carrier optical signal Xiang Liu, Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan 2012-05-15 $816,000
7805075 Methods of restoration in an ultra-long haul optical network Angela Chiu, John Lester Strand 2010-09-28 $23,889,000
7526198 Methods of restoration in an ultra-long haul optical network Angela Chiu, John Lester Strand 2009-04-28 $52,098,000
7231147 System and method of wavelength add/drop multiplexing having client configurability Evan Lee Goldstein, Lih-Yuan Lin, Chuan Pu 2007-06-12 $105,408,000
7088676 Methods and systems for fast restoration in a mesh network of optical cross connects Robert Duncan Doverspike, Gokhan Sahin, John Lester Strand 2006-08-08 $125,255,000
6970417 Methods and systems for fast restoration in a mesh network of optical cross connects Robert Duncan Doverspike, Gokhan Sahin, John Lester Strand 2005-11-29 $18,154,000
6928244 System and method of wavelength add/drop multiplexing having client configurability Evan Lee Goldstein, Lih-Yuan Lin, Chuan Pu 2005-08-09
6606428 Angular-precision enhancement in free-space micromachined optical switches Evan Lee Goldstein, Lih-Yuan Lin 2003-08-12
6498673 Micro-machined tunable delay line Nicholas J. Frigo, Evan Lee Goldstein, Lih-Yuan Lin, Chuan Pu 2002-12-24
6445485 Micro-machine polarization-state controller Nicholas J. Frigo, Evan Lee Goldstein, Lih-Yuan Lin, Chuan Pu 2002-09-03
6317532 Method and apparatus for low loss via geometrical optimization in free-space micro-machined optical switches Lih-Yuan Lin, Evan Lee Goldstein 2001-11-13
6292600 Angular-precision enhancement in free-space micromachined optical switches Evan Lee Goldstein, Lih-Yuan Lin 2001-09-18
6271958 Method and apparatus for curvature-resistant micro-mirror structures to reduce light beam loss in free-space micro-machined optical switches Lih-Yuan Lin, Evan Lee Goldstein 2001-08-07
6191877 WDM optical fiber system using Raman amplification Andrew R. Chraplyvy, Fabrizio Forghieri 2001-02-20 $18,448,000
6011892 Optical fiber for wavelength division multiplexing Andrew R. Chraplyvy 2000-01-04 $89,169,000
5907420 System and method for mitigating cross-saturation in optically amplified networks Andrew R. Chraplyvy, John C. Ellson, George W. Newsome, John Zyskind 1999-05-25 $69,926,000
5900968 Method of fast gain control in WDM optical networks Atul K. Srivastava, James W. Sulhoff, Yan Sun, John Zyskind 1999-05-04 $106,039,000