William Farmer — 17 Patents at Irobot

William Farmer has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Irobot. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in November 2025. William Farmer ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list William Farmer in Bedford, MA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12482288	Document classification of files on the client side before upload	Sreenidhi Narayanamangalathu KESAVAN, Dimitri BILENKIN, William K. Jackson, Karthikeyan PALANIVELU, Siddharth MANGALIK	2025-11-25
11948383	Document classification of files on the client side before upload	Sreenidhi Narayanamangalathu KESAVAN, Dimitri BILENKIN, William Clayton JACKSON, Karthikeyan PALANIVELU, Siddharth MANGALIK	2024-04-02	$23,907,000
11712138	Wet floorcare robot cleaner tank latch	Jason Jeffrey Suchman, Johnson Hsu	2023-08-01	$11,618,000
10966587	Mobile cleaning robot cleaning head	Thomas P. Schregardus, Eric Burbank	2021-04-06	$26,287,000
10806314	Wet floorcare robot cleaner tank latch	Jason Jeffrey Suchman, Johnson Hsu	2020-10-20	$27,712,000
10794992	Apparatus and method for detecting and correcting for blockage of an automotive radar sensor	—	2020-10-06
10470636	Mobile cleaning robot cleaning head	Thomas P. Schregardus, Eric Burbank	2019-11-12	$4,458,000
10451728	Apparatus and method for attenuating close-range radar signals with balancing for dual-frequency difference in radar signals in an automotive radar sensor	Michael Paradie	2019-10-22
D735258	Mobile human interface robot	Stuart R. Jang, Brian Cleve Benson, JR.	2015-07-28
D732096	Mobile human interface robot	Stuart R. Jang, Brian Cleve Benson, JR.	2015-06-16
8561442	Steering shaft lock actuator	Sumit Sharma, William Fort, Brian Ganter, Todd M. Meaney	2013-10-22	$3,085,000
8191442	Window lift system and actuator including an internal drive train disconnect	Knight Ko, Eric Tsui, Brian Ganter	2012-06-05	$1,153,000
8047028	Steering shaft lock actuator	Sumit Sharma, William Fort, Brian Ganter, Todd M. Meaney	2011-11-01	$2,167,000
7197955	Gearbox shift actuator	Sumit Sharma, Robert Cicerchia	2007-04-03	$2,750,000
7021415	Electro-mechanical actuator for an electrically actuated parking brake	Gary Kinnear, Thomas P. Schregardus, Yuly Yanishevsky	2006-04-04	$1,768,000
6550351	Transmission range selector system	Michael O'Reilly, William Fort, Robert S. Vann Rox, Per I. Karlsson, Brian Ganter	2003-04-22	$3,927,000
5504602	LCD including a diffusing screen in a plane where emerging light from one pixel abuts light from adjacent pixels	—	1996-04-02

William Farmer — 17 Patents

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