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William M. Silver — 75 Patents

COCognex: 56 patents #4 of 277Top 2%
CICognex Technology And Investment: 19 patents #1 of 74Top 2%
Nobleboro, ME: #1 of 3 inventorsTop 35%
Maine: #16 of 4,281 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #25,505 of 4,157,543Top 1%
75 Patents All Time
William M. Silver has been granted 75 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cognex. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in June 2018. William M. Silver ranks #25,505 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.61%). Patent records list William M. Silver in Nobleboro, ME, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 75 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9995573 Probe placement for image processing Simon Barker, David J. Michael 2018-06-12 $26,340,000
9946947 System and method for finding saddle point-like structures in an image and determining information from the same Earle B. Stokes, Fenghua Jin, Xiangyun Ye, Ivan Bachelder 2018-04-17 $54,401,000
9589199 Methods and apparatus for one-dimensional signal extraction Ivan Bachelder 2017-03-07 $50,374,000
9218536 Methods and apparatus for one-dimensional signal extraction 2015-12-22 $23,657,000
9183443 Method and apparatus for configuring and testing a machine vision detector Andrew Eames, Brian Mirtich 2015-11-10 $24,066,000
9122952 Methods and apparatus for one-dimensional signal extraction Ivan Bachelder 2015-09-01 $5,869,000
9094588 Human machine-interface and method for manipulating data in a machine vision system Brian S. Phillips 2015-07-28 $6,124,000
9092841 Method and apparatus for visual detection and inspection of objects 2015-07-28 $6,124,000
8927917 Method and system for optoelectronic detection and location of objects 2015-01-06 $21,969,000
8891852 Method and apparatus for configuring and testing a machine vision detector Andrew Eames, Brian Mirtich 2014-11-18 $24,631,000
8867847 Method for fast, robust, multi-dimensional pattern recognition E. John McGarry, Sanjay Nichani, Adam Wagman 2014-10-21 $23,259,000
8743220 System and method for acquiring a still image from a moving image E. John McGarry 2014-06-03 $5,227,000
8718319 Method and system for optoelectronic detection and location of objects 2014-05-06 $17,698,000
8630478 Method and apparatus for locating objects 2014-01-14 $17,326,000
8625880 Method and apparatus for human interface to a machine vision system Robert Shillman, Aaron S. Wallack 2014-01-07 $16,310,000
8542281 System and method for acquiring a still image from a moving image E. John McGarry 2013-09-24 $3,581,000
8422729 System for configuring an optoelectronic sensor Robert Tremblay, Andrew Eames 2013-04-16 $8,340,000
8411929 Method and system for dynamic feature detection 2013-04-02 $9,007,000
8363956 Method for fast, robust, multi-dimensional pattern recognition E. John McGarry, Matthew L. Hill, Nigel J. Foster, Sanjay Nichani, Willard Foster +1 more 2013-01-29 $3,197,000
8363942 Method for fast, robust, multi-dimensional pattern recognition E. John McGarry, Sanjay Nichani, Adam Wagman 2013-01-29 $3,197,000
8363972 Method for fast, robust, multi-dimensional pattern recognition E. John McGarry, Matthew L. Hill, Nigel J. Foster, Sanjay Nichani, Willard Foster +1 more 2013-01-29 $3,197,000
8335380 Method for fast, robust, multi-dimensional pattern recognition E. John McGarry, Sanjay Nichani, Adam Wagman 2012-12-18 $8,915,000
8331673 Method for fast, robust, multi-dimensional pattern recognition E. John McGarry, Matt Hill, Willard Foster 2012-12-11 $8,691,000
8320675 Method for fast, robust, multi-dimensional pattern recognition E. John McGarry, Sanjay Nichani, Adam Wagman 2012-11-27 $9,838,000
8295552 Method for setting parameters of a vision detector using production line information Brian Mirtich 2012-10-23 $5,004,000