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William Silver — 5 Patents

COCognex: 5 patents #72 of 277Top 30%
Weston, MA: #135 of 466 inventorsTop 30%
Massachusetts: #23,696 of 88,656 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
William Silver has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cognex. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in August 2005. William Silver ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list William Silver in Weston, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2002.peak 22002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6931602 Approach facilitating the selection of various machine vision functionality from among different platforms Raymond Fix, Aaron S. Wallack 2005-08-16 $11,220,000
6690842 Apparatus and method for detection and sub-pixel location of edges in a digital image Arman Garakani, Aaron S. Wallack 2004-02-10 $12,115,000
6639624 Machine vision methods for inspection of leaded components Ivan Bachelder, Karen Roberts, Aaron S. Wallack, Edward A. Collins, Karen Sarachik 2003-10-28 $11,724,000
6457032 Efficient flexible digital filtering 2002-09-24 $7,207,000
6408109 Apparatus and method for detecting and sub-pixel location of edges in a digital image Arman Garakani, Aaron S. Wallack 2002-06-18 $5,673,000