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John Gardner — 42 Patents

MIMetrologic Instruments: 20 patents #49 of 189Top 30%
GE: 5 patents #6,849 of 36,430Top 20%
MSMagna Interior Systems: 5 patents #1 of 49Top 3%
AIAtoma International: 3 patents #17 of 135Top 15%
SLSmiths Industries Public Limited: 2 patents #32 of 171Top 20%
HSHaier Us Appliance Solutions: 1 patents #502 of 889Top 60%
CPCpg Products: 1 patents #42 of 97Top 45%
DTDavidson Textron: 1 patents #80 of 155Top 55%
Healdsburg, CA: #3 of 126 inventorsTop 3%
California: #10,667 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
John Gardner has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Metrologic Instruments. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in December 2025. John Gardner ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list John Gardner in Healdsburg, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12491708 Method and apparatus for producing embossed images and text Daniel J. Gardner 2025-12-09
11528851 Indoor garden center with a moisture management system Matthew R. Hunter, Michael Goodman Schroeder, Louis A. Wantland, Brian Allgeier 2022-12-20
9141102 Method and system for scheduling appliance operation during off-peak demand periods Khalid Jamal Mashal, Geoffrey Lee Ranard, Christopher Styn 2015-09-22 $27,081,000
8931859 Consumer appliance such as dishwasher with soft open door mechanism Kyle Andrew Kozinski, Ryan Ellis Leonard, Aaron Matthew McDaniel 2015-01-13 $26,737,000
8857198 Icemaker shut off method for premature harvest reduction Christopher Styn, Martin Scott Mershon, Lorina June White, Khalid Jamal Mashal, Joseph Michael Hauser 2014-10-14 $12,543,000
8365551 Vacuum insulator for a refrigerator appliance Kenneth Joseph Hanley, Martin Christopher Severance, Karthick Srinivasan 2013-02-05 $20,690,000
8292381 Consumer appliance such as dishwasher with soft open door mechanism Aaron Matthew McDaniel 2012-10-23 $21,228,000
8172141 Laser beam despeckling devices C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2012-05-08
8042740 Method of reading bar code symbols on objects at a point-of-sale station by passing said objects through a complex of stationary coplanar illumination and imaging planes projected into a 3D imaging volume C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2011-10-25
7954719 Tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system for use in retail point-of-sale environments Xiaoxun Zhu, Anatoly Kotlarsky, Tao Xian, Timothy Good, Jie Ren +10 more 2011-06-07
7878407 POS-based digital image capturing and processing system employing automatic object motion detection and spectral-mixing based illumination techniques C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2011-02-01
7806336 Laser beam generation system employing a laser diode and high-frequency modulation circuitry mounted on a flexible circuit C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-10-05
7806335 Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing objects in a POS environment C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-10-05
7793841 Laser illumination beam generation system employing despeckling of the laser beam using high-frequency modulation of the laser diode current and optical multiplexing of the component laser beams C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-09-14
7784695 Planar laser illumination module (PLIM) employing high-frequency modulation (HFM) of the laser drive currents and optical multplexing of the output laser beams C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-08-31
7784698 Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing graphical intelligence graphically represented in digital images of objects C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-08-31
7775436 Method of driving a plurality of visible and invisible LEDs so as to produce an illumination beam having a dynamically managed ratio of visible to invisible (IR) spectral energy/power during object illumination and imaging operations C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-08-17
7770796 Device for producing a laser beam of reduced coherency using high-frequency modulation of the laser diode current and optical multiplexing of the output laser beam C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-08-10
7762465 Device for optically multiplexing a laser beam C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-07-27
7731091 Digital image capturing and processing system employing automatic object detection and spectral-mixing based illumination techniques C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-06-08
7665665 Digital illumination and imaging subsystem employing despeckling mechanism employing high-frequency modulation of laser diode drive current and optical beam multiplexing techniques C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-02-23
7661597 Coplanar laser illumination and imaging subsystem employing spectral-mixing and despeckling of laser illumination C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2010-02-16
7614560 Method of illuminating objects at a point of sale (POS) station by adaptively controlling the spectral composition of the wide-area illumination beam produced from an illumination subsystem within an automatic digital image capture and processing system C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2009-11-10
7588188 Pos-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2009-09-15
7575170 POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Timothy Good, Tao Xian, Anatoly Kotlarsky +14 more 2009-08-18