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William J. Cassarly — 50 Patents

GE: 26 patents #900 of 36,430Top 3%
OPOptical Research Partners: 11 patents #2 of 15Top 15%
ADAvery Dennison: 5 patents #185 of 1,021Top 20%
EFEnergy Focus: 5 patents #6 of 36Top 20%
FSFederal Signal: 3 patents #103 of 717Top 15%
SYSynopsys: 2 patents #669 of 2,302Top 30%
FIFiberstar: 2 patents #11 of 41Top 30%
TSThree-Five Systems: 1 patents #14 of 35Top 40%
ZIZight: 1 patents #4 of 5Top 80%
Ford: 1 patents #9,400 of 17,473Top 55%
BRBrillian: 1 patents #7 of 27Top 30%
Wooster, OH: #8 of 461 inventorsTop 2%
Ohio: #752 of 73,341 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #53,743 of 4,157,543Top 2%
50 Patents All Time
William J. Cassarly has been granted 50 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in October 2019. William J. Cassarly ranks #53,743 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list William J. Cassarly in Wooster, OH, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 1997.peak 61991: 2 patents19911992: 1 patents1994: 1 patents1995: 2 patents19951996: 4 patents1997: 6 patents1998: 4 patents19981999: 4 patents2001: 4 patents2002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents2007: 4 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 3 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents2013: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 50 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6192176 Compact optical system with turn and color mixing Richard L. Hansler, John M. Davenport, Richard C. Nagle 2001-02-20 $137,031,000
5927849 Low angle, dual port light coupling arrangement John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler 1999-07-27 $99,896,000
5924792 Modular dual port central lighting system John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler 1999-07-20 $240,884,000
5896004 Double ended quartz lamp with end bend control Joseph Feldman, Richard L. Hansler, Walter Chapman, John M. Davenport, Rocco T. Giordano +3 more 1999-04-20 $171,183,000
5877681 System and method for broadcasting colored light for emergency signalling Jerry L. Williams, Dennis Hilburger, Jacek J. Jozwik, Kent Kekeis, Timothy J. Mazies +3 more 1999-03-02
5842765 Tricolor lighting system John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler, Alistair Allen Miller 1998-12-01 $62,593,000
5826963 Low angle, dual port light coupling arrangement John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler 1998-10-27 $85,766,000
5812713 Optical coupling system with bend Gary R. Allen, John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler 1998-09-22 $64,233,000
5774608 Optical coupling systems with bend Gary R. Allen, John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler 1998-06-30 $40,123,000
5691696 System and method for broadcasting colored light for emergency signals Timothy J. Mazies, Jerry L. Williams 1997-11-25
5692091 Compact optical coupling systems John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler 1997-11-25 $67,308,000
5675677 Lamp-to-light guide coupling arrangement for an electrodeless high intensity discharge lamp John M. Davenport, Mark E. Duffy, Richard L. Hansler, Kenneth S. King, Thomas G. Parham +3 more 1997-10-07 $33,909,000
5664863 Compact uniform beam spreader for a high brightness centralized lighting system John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler, Timothy J. Mazies 1997-09-09
5654610 Electrodeless discharge lamp having a neon fill John M. Davenport, Thomas R. Stanton, Joseph M. Allison 1997-08-05 $75,514,000
5636915 High brightness projection lighting system John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler, Richard C. Nagle 1997-06-10 $133,193,000
5567031 High efficiency dual output light source John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler 1996-10-22 $23,388,000
5563977 Display system having greyscale control of fiber optic delivered light output John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler, Jean-Pierre Vanderreydt, Allen Michael Miller 1996-10-08 $43,771,000
5560699 Optical coupling arrangement between a lamp and a light guide John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler, Mahendra Somasara Dassanayake, Jeffrey Allen Erion, John Li 1996-10-01
5515243 Retrofit optical assembly for lighting system John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler 1996-05-07 $21,906,000
5469337 Multiple port high brightness centralized lighting system John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler 1995-11-21 $21,172,000
5420769 High temperature lamp assembly with improved thermal management properties Frederic F. Ahlgren, Gary R. Allen, Willie J. Cheney, John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler +1 more 1995-05-30 $21,179,000
5317484 Collection optics for high brightness discharge light source John M. Davenport, Richard L. Hansler, Kenneth S. King 1994-05-31 $9,428,000
5107357 Low insertion loss optical beam steerer John C. Ehlert 1992-04-21 $7,347,000
5059008 Wide angle beam steerer using translation of plural lens arrays Kevin M. Flood 1991-10-22 $8,051,000
5015080 Continuous wide angle beam steerer using lens translation and phase shifter Kevin M. Flood 1991-05-14 $11,980,000