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Allan Wirth

MIMetrologic Instruments: 29 patents #35 of 189Top 20%
AAAdaptive Optics Associates: 7 patents #2 of 13Top 20%
RTX (Raytheon): 5 patents #2,369 of 15,912Top 15%
Northrop Grumman: 2 patents #475 of 2,250Top 25%
Bedford, MA: #16 of 774 inventorsTop 3%
Massachusetts: #1,415 of 88,656 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #63,516 of 4,157,543Top 2%
46 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–46 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6863216 METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET Constantine J. Tsikos, C. Harry Knowles, Timothy Good, Andrew Jankevics 2005-03-08
6857570 METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING TEMPORAL FREQUENCY MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET Constantine J. Tsikos, C. Harry Knowles, Timothy Good, Andrew Jankevics 2005-02-22
6830189 METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING DIGITAL IMAGES OF OBJECTS WITH SUBTANTIALLY REDUCED SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERNS BY ILLUMINATING SAID OBJECTS WITH SPATIALLY AND/OR TEMPORALLY COHERENT-REDUCED PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION Constantine J. Tsikos, Andrew Jankevics, Steve Kim, Timothy Good, Thomas Amundsen +5 more 2004-12-14
6830185 Method of and system for automatically producing digital images of a moving object, with pixels having a substantially uniform white level independent of the velocity of said moving object Constantine J. Tsikos, C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Michael Schnee, Ka Man Au +3 more 2004-12-14
6742707 METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE SPATIAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE THE BEAM ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING SPATIAL PHASE SHIFTING TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB THERETOWARDS Constantine J. Tsikos, Michael Schnee, Xiaoxun Zhu, Thomas Amundsen, Charles A. Naylor +3 more 2004-06-01
6739511 METHOD OF SPECKLE-NOISE PATTERN REDUCTION AND APPARATUS THEREFOR BASED ON REDUCING THE TEMPORAL-COHERENCE OF THE PLANAR LASER ILLUMINATION BEAM BEFORE IT ILLUMINATES THE TARGET OBJECT BY APPLYING TEMPORAL PHASE MODULATION TECHNIQUES DURING THE TRANSMISSION OF THE PLIB TOWARDS THE TARGET Constantine J. Tsikos, C. Harry Knowles, Timothy Good, Andrew Jankevics 2004-05-25
6736321 Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) system employing wavefront control methods for reducing the power of speckle-pattern noise digital images acquired by said system Constantine J. Tsikos, Timothy Good, Andrew Jankevics, C. Harry Knowles 2004-05-18
6709108 OPHTHALMIC INSTRUMENT WITH ADAPTIVE OPTIC SUBSYSTEM THAT MEASURES ABERRATIONS (INCLUDING HIGHER ORDER ABERRATIONS) OF A HUMAN EYE AND THAT PROVIDES A VIEW OF COMPENSATION OF SUCH ABERRATIONS TO THE HUMAN EYE Bruce Martin Levine, C. Harry Knowles 2004-03-23
6669341 Ophthalmic instrument having wavefront sensor with multiple imaging devices that simultaneously capture multiple images of an array of spots produced by a lenslet array 2003-12-30
6649895 Dispersed Hartmann sensor and method for mirror segment alignment and phasing 2003-11-18
6631991 Ophthalmic instrument having hartmann wavefront sensor deriving location of spots with spot fitting techniques 2003-10-14
6630656 Method and apparatus for wavefront measurement that resolves the 2-&pgr; ambiguity in such measurement and adaptive optics systems utilizing same 2003-10-07
6629641 Method of and system for producing images of objects using planar laser illumination beams and image detection arrays Constantine J. Tsikos, Michael Schnee, Xiaoxun Zhu, Thomas Amundsen, Charles A. Naylor +3 more 2003-10-07
6595642 Ophthalmic instrument having Hartmann wavefront sensor with extended source 2003-07-22
5291334 Micro-lens panoramic imager Andrew Jankevics, Franklin M. Landers, Theresa L. Bruno, Dante P. D'Amato, Lawrence E. Schmutz +2 more 1994-03-01
5270859 Optical instrument with micro-lenses Andrew Jankevics, Dante P. D'Amato, Theresa L. Bruno, Lawrence E. Schmutz, Franklin M. Landers 1993-12-14
5164578 Two-dimensional OCP wavefront sensor employing one-dimensional optical detection Carl G. Witthoft, Lawrence E. Schmutz, Theresa L. Bruno, Bruce Baran 1992-11-17
5146073 Linear wavefront sensor camera with deformable mirror for recording velocity compensated images Andris Jankevics 1992-09-08
5083015 Optical centroid processor wavefront sensor Carl G. Witthoft, Lawrence E. Schmutz 1992-01-21
4737621 Integrated adaptive optical wavefront sensing and compensating system Thomas Gonsiorowski, Julius M. Feinleib, Peter F. Cone, Andrew Jankevics, Kelsey S. Nikerson +2 more 1988-04-12
4725138 Optical wavefront sensing system Julius M. Feinleib, Lawrence E. Schmutz, Douglas H. Rapkine, Robert F. Dillon, John J. Hizny 1988-02-16