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William E. Lorensen — 32 Patents

GE: 31 patents #668 of 36,430Top 2%
Lockheed Martin: 1 patents #2,818 of 6,507Top 45%
Ballston Lake, NY: #25 of 321 inventorsTop 8%
New York: #3,705 of 115,490 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
William E. Lorensen has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in January 2011. William E. Lorensen ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list William E. Lorensen in Ballston Lake, NY, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7865316 System, program product, and related methods for registering three-dimensional models to point data representing the pose of a part Wesley David Turner, James Vradenburg Miller 2011-01-04 $13,285,000
7058210 Method and system for lung disease detection Joseph L. Mundy, Colin Craig McCulloch, Ricardo Scott Avila, Shannon Hastings, Robert August Kaucic +1 more 2006-06-06 $34,892,000
6631322 Method and apparatus for vehicle management Richard Brownell Arthur, Michael LaBlanc, Janet Arlie Barnett, Mark Mitchell Kornfein, Douglas Forman +1 more 2003-10-07 $51,954,000
6463168 Apparatus and method for rapid connectivity processing of images Abdalmajeid Alyassin, Gopal Biligeri Avanash 2002-10-08 $33,319,000
6411919 Method and apparatus for generating cable occupancy volumes Jonathan Earl Davis, Russell Scott Blue, Steven Linthicum, Christopher Richard Volpe 2002-06-25 $56,960,000
6298148 Method of registering surfaces using curvature Harvey E. Cline 2001-10-02 $123,449,000
5900880 3-D surfaces generated from a list of cubic elements Harvey E. Cline 1999-05-04 $100,591,000
5821942 Ray tracing through an ordered array Ricardo Scott Avila, Lisa Marie Sobierajski, Harvey E. Cline 1998-10-13 $76,050,000
5740802 Computer graphic and live video system for enhancing visualization of body structures during surgery Christopher Allen Nafis, Timothy Patrick Kelliher, Harvey E. Cline, David E. Altobelli, Ron Kikinis +2 more 1998-04-21 $93,687,000
5682506 Method and system for group visualization of virtual objects Nelson Raymond Corby, Jr. 1997-10-28 $41,259,000
5611025 Virtual internal cavity inspection system Ferenc A. Jolesz, Ron Kikinis 1997-03-11 $31,639,000
5542036 Implicit modeling of swept volumes and swept surfaces William J. Schroeder, Steven Linthicum 1996-07-30 $28,579,000
5514962 Oblique MR image controlled from a 3D workstation model Harvey E. Cline, Christopher Judson Hardy 1996-05-07 $21,906,000
5458126 Cardiac functional analysis system employing gradient image segmentation Harvey E. Cline 1995-10-17 $29,364,000
5433199 Cardiac functional analysis method using gradient image segmentation Harvey E. Cline 1995-07-18 $46,536,000
5412563 Gradient image segmentation method Harvey E. Cline 1995-05-02 $16,709,000
5365927 Magnetic resonance imaging system with pointing device Peter B. Roemer, Samuel M. Blumenfeld, Kirby Vosburgh, Harvey E. Cline, William D. Barber +5 more 1994-11-22 $12,840,000
5345490 Method and apparatus for converting computed tomography (CT) data into finite element models Peter Finnigan, Alan F. Hathaway 1994-09-06 $8,294,000
5204625 Segmentation of stationary and vascular surfaces in magnetic resonance imaging Harvey E. Cline, Steven P. Souza, Thomas E. Kennedy 1993-04-20 $7,818,000
5187658 System and method for segmenting internal structures contained within the interior region of a solid object Harvey E. Cline 1993-02-16 $10,412,000
5166876 System and method for detecting internal structures contained within the interior region of a solid object Harvey E. Cline 1992-11-24 $8,424,000
5146557 User interface for a golf green and a golf putt modelling system Boris Yamrom 1992-09-08 $13,255,000
4984157 System and method for displaying oblique planar cross sections of a solid body using tri-linear interpolation to determine pixel position dataes Harvey E. Cline, Siegwalt Ludke 1991-01-08 $7,521,000
4879668 Method of displaying internal surfaces of three-dimensional medical images Harvey E. Cline, Siegwalt Ludke 1989-11-07 $12,147,000
4831528 Apparatus and method for improvement of 3D images derived from tomographic data Carl R. Crawford 1989-05-16 $6,338,000