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John Ladd — 37 Patents

AIAptina Imaging: 13 patents #10 of 332Top 4%
RARambus: 10 patents #151 of 549Top 30%
Micron: 7 patents #2,050 of 6,374Top 35%
ONonsemi: 4 patents #398 of 1,901Top 25%
BSBae Systems Imaging Solutions: 1 patents #23 of 36Top 65%
Santa Clara, CA: #353 of 9,301 inventorsTop 4%
California: #12,909 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
John Ladd has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at Aptina Imaging. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in October 2025. John Ladd ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list John Ladd in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12435716 Pressure packing for a reciprocating piston compressor with buffer gas barrier Andreas Brandl, Karl Richard Markey, Guido Pratelli, Patrick James Raffety 2025-10-07
11462581 Photodetector adapted to provide additional color information James E. Crouch, Alberto M. Magnani 2022-10-04
11012649 Feedthrough-compensated image sensor Michael Guidash, Jay Endsley, Thomas Vogelsang, Craig M. Smith 2021-05-18 $2,339,000
10798322 High dynamic-range image sensor Craig M. Smith, Frank W. Armstrong, Jay Endsley, Thomas Vogelsang, James E. Harris +1 more 2020-10-06 $6,500,000
10652493 Low-noise, high dynamic-range image sensor Michael Guidash, Craig M. Smith, Thomas Vogelsang, Jay Endsley, Michael Ching +1 more 2020-05-12 $1,556,000
10567683 Image sensor with depletion-level pixel charge transfer control Michael Guidash 2020-02-18 $5,484,000
10356350 Dark-emulation image sensor Michael Guidash, Jay Endsley, Thomas Vogelsang, Craig M. Smith 2019-07-16 $3,083,000
10165209 Low-noise, high dynamic-range image sensor Michael Guidash, Craig M. Smith, Thomas Vogelsang, Jay Endsley, Michael Ching +1 more 2018-12-25
10104318 High dynamic-range image sensor Craig M. Smith, Frank W. Armstrong, Jay Endsley, Thomas Vogelsang, James E. Harris +1 more 2018-10-16 $827,000
10070084 Image sensor with multi-range readout Michael Guidash, Jay Endsley, Thomas Vogelsang, Craig M. Smith 2018-09-04 $3,145,000
9846032 Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for three-dimensional fluid scanning 2017-12-19
9584745 Image sensors with N-row parallel readout capability 2017-02-28 $5,844,000
9531976 Systems and methods for operating image sensor pixels having different sensitivities and shared charge storage regions Vladimir Korobov 2016-12-27 $5,554,000
9432597 Low-noise, high dynamic-range image sensor Michael Guidash, Thomas Vogelsang, Jay Endsley, James E. Harris, Craig M. Smith +1 more 2016-08-30 $1,706,000
9344647 Imaging systems with dynamic shutter operation Gennadiy Agranov, Sergey Velichko 2016-05-17 $7,688,000
9264639 Feedthrough-compensated image sensor Michael Guidash, Jay Endsley, Thomas Vogelsang, Craig M. Smith 2016-02-16 $1,883,000
9105542 Imaging systems and methods for providing a switchable impedance to ground Satyadev Nagaraja 2015-08-11 $5,716,000
8829407 Imaging systems and methods including pixel arrays with reduced numbers of metal lines and control signals Gennadiy Agranov, Xiangli Li 2014-09-09
8350940 Image sensors and color filter arrays for charge summing and interlaced readout modes Scott T. Smith 2013-01-08
8278131 Method and apparatus for dark current and blooming supression in 4T CMOS imager pixel 2012-10-02 $3,340,000
8130304 Image sensors with pixel charge summing Zhiping Yin 2012-03-06
8077236 Method and apparatus providing reduced metal routing in imagers Richard Scott Johnson 2011-12-13
8021908 Method and apparatus for dark current and blooming suppression in 4T CMOS imager pixel 2011-09-20 $3,026,000
7969494 Imager and system utilizing pixel with internal reset control and method of operating same Gennadiy Agranov 2011-06-28
7920193 Methods, systems and apparatuses using barrier self-calibration for high dynamic range imagers Gennadiy Agranov, Dmitri Jerdev 2011-04-05