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Ralph Thomas Hoctor — 55 Patents

GE: 46 patents #315 of 36,430Top 1%
Lockheed Martin: 4 patents #788 of 6,507Top 15%
MDMorpho Detection: 3 patents #18 of 132Top 15%
GEGenral Electric: 1 patents #1 of 32Top 4%
UPUniversity of Pennsylvania: 1 patents #1,260 of 2,719Top 50%
Saratoga Springs, NY: #9 of 363 inventorsTop 3%
New York: #1,621 of 115,490 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #45,454 of 4,157,543Top 2%
55 Patents All Time
Ralph Thomas Hoctor has been granted 55 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in September 2017. Ralph Thomas Hoctor ranks #45,454 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Ralph Thomas Hoctor in Saratoga Springs, NY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 55 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9759690 Method and system for nondestructive ultrasound testing Stephen Eric Zingelewicz 2017-09-12 $16,279,000
9622324 Geolocation aid and system Michael James Hartman, Bruce Gordon Barnett, John Erik Hershey, Michael Joseph Dell'Anno, Stanislava Soro 2017-04-11 $16,578,000
9538987 System and method for ultrasound imaging Larry Y. L. Mo 2017-01-10 $27,458,000
9366753 Systems and methods for ultrasound retrospective transmit focus beamforming Daniel John Buckton, Srinivasan Jagannathan, Martin Mienkina, Jing Jin 2016-06-14 $23,864,000
9100307 Systems and methods for communicating ultrasound data by adjusting compression rate and/or frame rate of region of interest mask Pierino Gianni Bonanni, Stephen Francis Bush, Michael Joseph Dell'Anno, Stanislava Soro, Michael James Hartman +1 more 2015-08-04 $27,213,000
8622913 Method and system for non-invasive monitoring of patient parameters Aaron Mark Dentinger, Kedar Anil Patwardhan 2014-01-07 $23,149,000
8582865 Ultrasound imaging with ray casting and software-based image reconstruction Bruno Hans Haider 2013-11-12 $25,233,000
8574157 Method and apparatus for generating an ultrasound image of moving objects using deformable models Mirsaid Bolorforosh, Bruno Hans Haider 2013-11-05 $26,974,000
8388544 System and method for measuring blood viscosity Aaron Mark Dentinger 2013-03-05 $17,421,000
8379967 Swarm control systems and methods Stephen Francis Bush, John Erik Hershey, Glen William Brooksby, Ambalangoda Gurunnanselage Amitha Perera, Anthony James Hoogs 2013-02-19 $14,374,000
8315224 Methods and systems for reuse of radio resources in medical telemetry networks David Michael Davenport, Neal Seidl, Matthew George Grubis, Sahika Genc 2012-11-20 $23,842,000
8080800 Method and apparatus for image reconstruction for a synthetic aperture gamma ray imager Scott Stephen Zelakiewicz, Evren Asma 2011-12-20
8013310 Apparatus and method for image reconstruction for a synthetic aperture gamma ray imager Scott Stephen Zelakiewicz 2011-09-06
7925068 Method and apparatus for forming a guide image for an ultrasound image scanner Mirsaid Bolorforosh 2011-04-12 $27,321,000
7751785 Antenna selection system and method Karina P. Carvalho, Neal Seidl, Matthew George Grubis, James Hurley, Russell Rymut 2010-07-06 $30,276,000
7663105 Apparatus and method for image reconstruction for a synthetic aperture gamma ray imager Scott Stephen Zelakiewicz, Evren Asma, Jeffrey Seymour Gordon, Floribertus P. M. Heukensfeldt Jansen 2010-02-16
7621876 Continuous, non-invasive technique for determining blood pressure using a transmission line model and transcutaneous ultrasound measurements Lawrence T. Hersh, Bruce A. Friedman 2009-11-24 $72,151,000
7573398 System and method of communicating signals Richard Louis Zinser, Matthew George Grubis, Neal Seidl 2009-08-11 $50,513,000
7548223 Reduced cost automatic meter reading system and method using locally communicating utility meters Glen William Brooksby, Daniel David Harrison, Daniel A. Staver, Ertugrul Berkcan, Wolfgang Daum +1 more 2009-06-16 $47,117,000
7499711 Transmitter location for ultra-wideband, transmitted-reference CDMA communication system John Erik Hershey, Nick Andrew Van Stralen, Harold Woodruff Tomlinson, Jr. 2009-03-03 $26,509,000
7470232 Method and apparatus for non-invasive ultrasonic fetal heart rate monitoring Kai Erik Thomenius 2008-12-30 $68,829,000
7466261 Method and system for radio detection and ranging intrusion detection system Jeffrey Michael Ashe, Vincent Paul Staudinger, Kenneth Brakeley Welles, II 2008-12-16 $43,932,000
7425199 Method and apparatus for ultrasonic continuous, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring Kai Erik Thomenius, Aaron Mark Dentinger 2008-09-16 $195,479,000
7385705 Imaging spectroscopy based on multiple pan-chromatic images obtained from an imaging system with an adjustable point spread function Frederick Wilson Wheeler 2008-06-10 $18,204,000
7313127 Method and apparatus for synchronizing a radio telemetry system by way of transmitted-reference, delay-hopped ultra-wideband pilot signal Stephen Michael Hladik 2007-12-25