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David J. Michael — 101 Patents

COCognex: 70 patents #2 of 277Top 1%
CICognex Technology And Investment: 9 patents #7 of 74Top 10%
DIDresser Industries: 7 patents #42 of 787Top 6%
SSShipin Systems: 5 patents #1 of 5Top 20%
Amazon: 2 patents #7,232 of 19,158Top 40%
INIndresco: 1 patents #17 of 35Top 50%
NRNorth American Refractories: 1 patents #20 of 40Top 50%
IUI2 Technologies Us: 1 patents #92 of 215Top 45%
SASouthwest Airlines: 1 patents #17 of 38Top 45%
DPDell Products: 1 patents #3,684 of 6,820Top 55%
Newton, MA: #11 of 2,747 inventorsTop 1%
Massachusetts: #246 of 88,656 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #14,231 of 4,157,543Top 1%
101 Patents All Time
David J. Michael has been granted 101 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cognex. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in December 2025. David J. Michael ranks #14,231 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.34%). Patent records list David J. Michael in Newton, MA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 101 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12494133 On-time performance impact evaluation tool Nilay Noyan Bulbul, Xi Wei, Eric Johnson Schaffer, Timothy Bill, Mark McFarland +3 more 2025-12-09
12477084 System and method for automatic detection of maritime blackout events Osher Perry 2025-11-18
12406489 System and method for automatic detection of visual events in transportation environments Ilan Naslavsky, Aditya Gupte, Moran Cohen 2025-09-02
12277780 Methods and apparatus for identifying surface features in three-dimensional images Nathaniel Bogan, Andrew Hoelscher 2025-04-15
12154054 System and method for maritime vessel risk assessment in response to maritime visual events Ilan Naslavsky, Moran Cohen, Osher Perry 2024-11-26
11908189 System and method for bandwidth reduction and communication of visual events Ilan Naslavsky, Osher Perry, Moran Cohen 2024-02-20
11893744 Methods and apparatus for extracting profiles from three-dimensional images Hongwei Zhu, Nathaniel Bogan 2024-02-06 $40,075,000
11881000 System and method for simultaneous consideration of edges and normals in image features by a vision system Andrew Hoelscher, Simon Barker, Adam Wagman 2024-01-23 $41,386,000
11816857 Methods and apparatus for generating point cloud histograms Hongwei Zhu, Nitin M. Vaidya 2023-11-14 $39,847,000
11810314 System and method for refining dimensions of a generally cuboidal 3D object imaged by 3D vision system and controls for the same Nitin M. Vaidya, Hongwei Zhu, Daniel Moreno, Ben R. Carey, Nickolas J. Mullan +2 more 2023-11-07 $39,456,000
11699247 System and method for runtime determination of camera miscalibration Xiangyun Ye, David Y. Li, Guruprasad Shivaram 2023-07-11 $34,820,000
11605177 System and method for refining dimensions of a generally cuboidal 3D object imaged by 3D vision system and controls for the same Ben R. Carey, Nickolas J. Mullan, Gilbert Chiang, Yukang Liu, Nitin M. Vaidya +2 more 2023-03-14 $32,800,000
11562502 System and method for calibrating a plurality of 3D sensors with respect to a motion conveyance Aaron S. Wallack, Gang Liu, Robert A. Wolff, Ruibing Wang, Hongwei Zhu 2023-01-24 $22,852,000
11468609 Methods and apparatus for generating point cloud histograms Hongwei Zhu, Nitin M. Vaidya 2022-10-11 $56,647,000
11410423 System and method for fleet management and communication of visual events and collaboration with the same Ilan Naslavsky, Osher Perry, Moran Cohen 2022-08-09
11335021 System and method for refining dimensions of a generally cuboidal 3D object imaged by 3D vision system and controls for the same Nitin M. Vaidya, Hongwei Zhu, Daniel Moreno, Ben R. Carey, Nickolas J. Mullan +2 more 2022-05-17 $59,566,000
11158039 Using 3D vision for automated industrial inspection Gang Liu, Ali Zadeh 2021-10-26 $42,984,000
11132552 System and method for bandwidth reduction and communication of visual events Ilan Naslavsky, Osher Perry, Moran Cohen 2021-09-28
10957072 System and method for simultaneous consideration of edges and normals in image features by a vision system Andrew Hoelscher, Simon Barker, Adam Wagman 2021-03-23 $55,165,000
10864639 Simultaneous kinematic and hand-eye calibration Lifeng Liu, Cyril C. Marrion, Tian Gan, Han Gui Xiao 2020-12-15 $125,128,000
10812778 System and method for calibrating one or more 3D sensors mounted on a moving manipulator Ruibing Wang, Aaron S. Wallack, Hongwei Zhu 2020-10-20 $55,594,000
10757394 System and method for calibrating a plurality of 3D sensors with respect to a motion conveyance Ruibing Wang, Aaron S. Wallack, Hongwei Zhu 2020-08-25 $20,989,000
10700940 Network planning and optimization Hoda Parvin, Russell Allgor, Ozlem Bilginer, Timothy L. Jacobs 2020-06-30 $239,627,000
10482621 System and method for improved scoring of 3D poses and spurious point removal in 3D image data Andrew Hoelscher, Aaron S. Wallack, Adam Wagman, Hongjun Jia 2019-11-19 $20,162,000
10452949 System and method for scoring clutter for use in 3D point cloud matching in a vision system Hongjun Jia, Adam Wagman, Andrew Hoelscher 2019-10-22 $65,112,000