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William Equitz — 36 Patents

COCognex: 21 patents #14 of 277Top 6%
CICognex Technology And Investment: 15 patents #2 of 74Top 3%
Newton, MA: #115 of 2,747 inventorsTop 5%
Massachusetts: #2,289 of 88,656 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
William Equitz has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cognex. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in April 2024. William Equitz ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list William Equitz in Newton, MA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11966810 System and method for expansion of field of view in a vision system Laurens Nunnink, Bennet Heidekorn, Jens Ruetten, Martijn Lambertus Peter Visser, Carl W. Gerst, III +1 more 2024-04-23 $13,892,000
11782156 Lens assembly with integrated feedback loop and time-of-flight sensor Andreas Weber, Laurens Nunnink, Rene Delasauce 2023-10-10 $42,918,000
11513311 Lens assembly with integrated feedback loop for focus adjustment Laurens Nunnink, Rene Delasauce 2022-11-29 $63,947,000
11422257 Lens assembly with integrated feedback loop and time-of-flight sensor Andreas Weber, Laurens Nunnink, Rene Delasauce 2022-08-23 $29,834,000
11002854 Lens assembly with integrated feedback loop and time-of-flight sensor Andreas Weber, Laurens Nunnink, Rene Delasauce 2021-05-11 $42,115,000
10712529 Lens assembly with integrated feedback loop for focus adjustment Laurens Nunnink, Rene Delasauce 2020-07-14 $101,987,000
10445544 System and method for expansion of field of view in a vision system Laurens Nunnink, Carl W. Gerst, III, Matthew D. Engle 2019-10-15 $64,523,000
10210362 Fast vision system Sateesh Nadabar 2019-02-19 $36,761,000
10057498 Light field vision system camera and methods for using the same Laurens Nunnink, David J. Michael 2018-08-21 $69,084,000
9892298 System and method for expansion of field of view in a vision system Laurens Nunnink, Carl W. Gerst, III, Matthew D. Engle 2018-02-13 $32,811,000
9857575 System and method for expansion of field of view in a vision system Laurens Nunnink, Carl W. Gerst, III, Matthew D. Engle 2018-01-02 $74,225,000
9584715 Vision system with swappable camera having an alignment indicator, and methods of making and using the same Paul Burrell 2017-02-28 $25,116,000
9536124 Integrated illumination assembly for symbology reader Laurens Nunnink 2017-01-03 $19,511,000
9405951 Integrated illumination assembly for symbology reader Laurens Nunnink 2016-08-02 $40,142,000
9329332 Light pipe illumination system and method Carl W. Gerst, III, Justin Testa, Sateesha Nadabar 2016-05-03 $31,838,000
9298960 Method and apparatus for providing omnidirectional lighting in a scanning device Carl W. Gerst, III, Justin Testa, Sateesha Nadabar 2016-03-29 $13,896,000
9244283 System and method for expansion of field of view in a vision system Laurens Nunnink, Carl W. Gerst, III 2016-01-26 $10,415,000
9135486 Fast vision system Sateesh Nadabar 2015-09-15 $25,207,000
9070031 Integrated illumination assembly for symbology reader Laurens Nunnink 2015-06-30 $26,502,000
9036929 Method and apparatus for high resolution decoding of encoded symbols Laurens Nunnink 2015-05-19 $27,637,000
9027838 System and method for expansion of field of view in a vision system Laurens Nunnink, Carl W. Gerst, III, Matthew D. Engle 2015-05-12 $29,160,000
8770483 Light pipe illumination system and method Carl W. Gerst, III, Justin Testa, Sateesha Nadabar 2014-07-08 $20,993,000
8740078 Method and apparatus for providing omnidirectional lighting in a scanning device Carl W. Gerst, III, Justin Testa, Sateesha Nadabar 2014-06-03 $5,227,000
8646690 System and method for expansion of field of view in a vision system Laurens Nunnink, Carl W. Gerst, III, Matthew D. Engle 2014-02-11 $8,886,000
8646689 Deformable light pattern for machine vision system Michael C. Moed, Robert T Tremblay, Carl W. Gerst, III 2014-02-11 $8,886,000