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William D. Barber — 18 Patents

GE: 18 patents #1,615 of 36,430Top 5%
Ballston Lake, NY: #54 of 321 inventorsTop 20%
New York: #7,989 of 115,490 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
William D. Barber has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in April 2010. William D. Barber ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list William D. Barber in Ballston Lake, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2000.peak 21980: 1 patents19801982: 1 patents1985: 1 patents19851987: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982000: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042005: 2 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7705701 Thin metal layer vacuum vessels with composite structural support Xianrui Huang, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam 2010-04-27 $46,512,000
7167000 Cryogenically cooled radiofrequency coil array for magnetic resonance imaging Kathleen Melanie Amm, Ronald Dean Watkins, Christopher Judson Hardy, Kenneth William Rohling 2007-01-23 $69,085,000
6982552 Methods and systems for fabricating magnetic resonance gradient coils Christopher Judson Hardy, John F. Schenck, Cornelius Jan Von Morze 2006-01-03 $35,197,000
6937018 Systems and methods for fabricating pole pieces for magnetic resonance imaging systems Bulent Aksel, Peter G. Frischmann 2005-08-30 $23,976,000
6906517 Method and apparatus for maintaining thermal stability of permanent magnets in MRI systems Xianrui Huang, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson, Kathleen Melanie Amm 2005-06-14 $33,388,000
6694602 Method of making a pole piece for an MRI Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Bulent Aksel, Paul Shadforth Thompson, Michele D. Ogle 2004-02-24 $52,119,000
6429761 Mold for bonding MRI pole piece tiles and method of making the mold Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Johannes Martinus van Oort, Bulent Aksel, Paul Shadforth Thompson, Michele D. Ogle 2002-08-06 $58,345,000
6259252 Laminate tile pole piece for an MRI, a method manufacturing the pole piece and a mold bonding pole piece tiles Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Johannes Martinus van Oort, Bulent Aksel, Paul Shadforth Thompson, Michele D. Ogle 2001-07-10 $136,843,000
6252405 Temperature compensated NMR magnet and method of operation therefor Ronald Dean Watkins, Peter G. Frischmann 2001-06-26 $99,513,000
6150818 Low eddy current and low hysteresis magnet pole faces in MR imaging 2000-11-21 $181,301,000
6150819 Laminate tiles for an MRI system and method and apparatus for manufacturing the laminate tiles Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Bulent Aksel, Richard Andrew Ranze 2000-11-21 $181,301,000
5742164 Misalignment compensation for MR gradient coil assembly Peter B. Roemer 1998-04-21 $93,687,000
5378989 Open gradient coils for magnetic resonance imaging Peter B. Roemer, Kenneth William Rohling 1995-01-03 $26,206,000
5365927 Magnetic resonance imaging system with pointing device Peter B. Roemer, Samuel M. Blumenfeld, Kirby Vosburgh, Harvey E. Cline, William E. Lorensen +5 more 1994-11-22 $12,840,000
4680551 Method for homogenizing a static magnetic field over an arbitrary volume Matthew O'Donnell, Steven G. Karr, Jish M. Wang, William A. Edelstein 1987-07-14 $10,266,000
4542657 Time domain technique to determine mean frequency Jeffrey Wayne Eberhard, Steven G. Karr 1985-09-24 $9,998,000
4339745 Optical character recognition Thomas M. Cipolla, Joseph L. Mundy 1982-07-13 $2,049,000
4212082 Method for fabrication of improved storage target and target produced thereby George E. Possin 1980-07-08 $2,294,000