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Werner Metz — 21 Patents

Intel: 11 patents #3,726 of 30,777Top 15%
Ncr: 5 patents #476 of 3,019Top 20%
TITexas Instruments: 3 patents #4,069 of 12,488Top 35%
POPolaroid: 2 patents #500 of 902Top 60%
Fort Collins, CO: #195 of 3,421 inventorsTop 6%
Colorado: #1,830 of 40,980 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Werner Metz has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in October 2017. Werner Metz ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Werner Metz in Fort Collins, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9784822 Time of flight sensor binning Dong-Ik Ko 2017-10-10 $21,850,000
9134114 Time of flight sensor binning Dong-Ik Ko 2015-09-15 $9,454,000
8908063 Method and apparatus for a time-of-flight sensor with charge storage 2014-12-09 $26,729,000
7286166 Calibrating digital cameras for varying ambient light conditions Ronald D. Smith 2007-10-23 $18,637,000
6954228 Image processing methods and apparatus Tinku Acharya, Yap-Peng Tan, Ping-Sing Tsai 2005-10-11 $27,235,000
6757430 Image processing architecture Tinku Acharya 2004-06-29 $34,137,000
6563948 Using an electronic camera to build a file containing text Yap-Peng Tan, Tinku Acharya 2003-05-13 $40,032,000
6556242 Dual mode signal processing system for video and still image data Randy R. Dunton, Curt Corum, Lawrence A. Booth, Jr., Tinku Acharya, Thomas C. Jones 2003-04-29 $39,757,000
6496291 Optical serial link Kannan Raj 2002-12-17 $45,119,000
6351555 Efficient companding algorithm suitable for color imaging Tinku Acharya 2002-02-26 $96,208,000
6348929 Scaling algorithm and architecture for integer scaling in video Tinku Acharya 2002-02-19 $213,043,000
6236433 Scaling algorithm for efficient color representation/recovery in video Tinku Acharya 2001-05-22 $176,958,000
6151069 Dual mode digital camera for video and still operation Randy R. Dunton, Curt Corum, Lawrence A. Booth, Jr., Tinku Acharya, Thomas C. Jones 2000-11-21 $211,011,000
6151415 Auto-focusing algorithm using discrete wavelet transform Tinku Acharya 2000-11-21 $211,011,000
5778106 Electronic camera with reduced color artifacts Andrew K. Juenger 1998-07-07 $10,229,000
5561458 Electronic imaging module for reversibly converting a photographic camera into an electronic imaging camera David Cronin, Tzu-Chiang Hsieh, James A. Ionson, Richard Paglia, David D. Pape 1996-10-01 $2,804,000
4682404 MOSFET process using implantation through silicon Gayle W. Miller, Nicholas J. Szluk, George Maheras 1987-07-28 $10,334,000
4666557 Method for forming channel stops in vertical semiconductor surfaces George J. Collins 1987-05-19 $19,804,000
4648175 Use of selectively deposited tungsten for contact formation and shunting metallization Nicholas J. Szluk, Gayle W. Miller, Michael J. Drury, Paul A. Sullivan 1987-03-10 $18,371,000
4647340 Programmable read only memory using a tungsten fuse Nicholas J. Szluk, Gayle W. Miller, Maurice M. Moll 1987-03-03 $12,819,000
4584027 Twin well single mask CMOS process Hubert O. Hayworth 1986-04-22 $17,966,000