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Michael Schnee — 90 Patents

MIMetrologic Instruments: 88 patents #10 of 189Top 6%
Chester, PA: #1 of 161 inventorsTop 1%
Pennsylvania: #191 of 74,527 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #17,911 of 4,157,543Top 1%
90 Patents All Time
Michael Schnee has been granted 90 US patents while listed as an inventor at Metrologic Instruments. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in May 2015. Michael Schnee ranks #17,911 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.43%). Patent records list Michael Schnee in Chester, PA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 90 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9030964 Wireless network device Steven Essinger, Xiaoxun Zhu, JiBin Liu, Xin Shen, Liangliang Chen +1 more 2015-05-12
8457013 Wireless dual-function network device dynamically switching and reconfiguring from a wireless network router state of operation into a wireless network coordinator state of operation in a wireless communication network Steven Essinger, Xiaoxun Zhu, JiBin Liu, Xin Shen, Liangliang Chen +1 more 2013-06-04
8234507 Electronic-ink display device employing a power switching mechanism automatically responsive to predefined states of device configuration Xiaoxun Zhu, Steven Essinger, Yong Liu 2012-07-31
7832643 Hand-supported planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based systems with laser despeckling mechanisms integrated therein Constantine J. Tsikos, C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Ka Man Au, Allan Wirth +21 more 2010-11-16
7743990 Imaging engine employing planar light illumination and linear imaging Xiaoxun Zhu, C. Harry Knowles 2010-06-29
7673803 Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based engine Constantine J. Tsikos, C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Ka Man Au, Allan Wirth +21 more 2010-03-09
7668406 Digital image acquisition system capable of compensating for changes in relative object velocity Xiaoxun Zhu, Carl Harry Knowles 2010-02-23
7644866 Hand-supportable code symbol reader employing coplanar laser illumination and linear imaging Constantine J. Tsikos, Xiaoxun Zhu, Thomas Amundsen, Charles A. Naylor, Russell Joseph Dobbs +1 more 2010-01-12
7621455 Hand-supportable code symbol reader employing coplanar laser illumination and linear imaging Constantine J. Tsikos, Xiaoxun Zhu, Thomas Amundsen, Charles A. Naylor, Russell Joseph Dobbs +1 more 2009-11-24
7604175 Method of reading bar code symbols using a digital-imaging based code symbol reading system employing an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture and supporting automatic operating system login and loading of bar code symbol reading application Xiaoxun Zhu, Yong Liu, Ka Man Au, Rui Hou, Hongpeng Yu +12 more 2009-10-20
7600689 Tunnel-based object identification and dimensioning system Constantine J. Tsikos, Allan Wirth, Timothy Good, Andrew Jankevics, Steve Kim +13 more 2009-10-13
7584893 Tunnel-type digital imaging system for use within retail shopping environments such as supermarkets Constantine J. Tsikos, C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Ka Man Au, Allan Wirth +21 more 2009-09-08
7581681 Tunnel-type digital imaging system for use within retail shopping environments such as supermarkets Constantine J. Tsikos, C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Ka Man Au, Allan Wirth +21 more 2009-09-01
7568625 Hand-supportable digital image-processing based bar code symbol reading system employing image cropping zone (ICZ) framing and post-image capture cropping Xiaoxun Zhu, Yong Liu, Ka Man Au, Rui Hou, Hongpeng Yu +12 more 2009-08-04
7533821 Hand-supportable planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) device for producing a planar laser illumination beam (PLIB) coplanar with the field of view (FOV) of a linear image detection array Constantine J. Tsikos, Xiaoxun Zhu, Thomas Amundsen, Charles A. Naylor, Russell Joseph Dobbs +1 more 2009-05-19
7527202 Hand-supportable planar linear illumination and imaging (PLIIM) based code symbol reading system Constantine J. Tsikos, Xiaoxun Zhu, Thomas Amundsen, Charles A. Naylor, Russell Joseph Dobbs +3 more 2009-05-05
7527200 Planar laser illumination and imaging (PLIIM) systems with integrated despeckling mechanisms provided therein Constantine J. Tsikos, C. Harry Knowles, Xiaoxun Zhu, Ka Man Au, Allan Wirth +21 more 2009-05-05
7527205 Automated package dimensioning system Xiaoxun Zhu, Ka Man Au, Gennady Germaine, George Kolis, Timothy Good +9 more 2009-05-05
7523863 Hand-supportable LED-based planar illumination and imaging system Constantine J. Tsikos, Xiaoxun Zhu, Thomas Amundsen, Charles A. Naylor, Russell Joseph Dobbs +1 more 2009-04-28
7513430 Digital image capturing and processing system employing an area-type image sensing array exposed to narrow-band illumination from a narrow-band illumination subsystem for a time duration controlled using a photodetector operated independently from said area-type image sensing array Xiaoxun Zhu, Yong Liu, Ka Man Au, Rui Hou, Hongpeng Yu +12 more 2009-04-07
7490778 Method of reading code symbols using a hand-supportable digital image capturing and processing device employing a micro-computing platform supporting an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture Xiaoxun Zhu, Yong Liu, Ka Man Au, Rui Hou, Hongpeng Yu +12 more 2009-02-17
7490774 Hand-supportable imaging based bar code symbol reader employing automatic light exposure measurement and illumination control subsystem integrated therein Xiaoxun Zhu, Yong Liu, Ka Man Au, Rui Hou, Hongpeng Yu +12 more 2009-02-17
7472831 System for detecting image light intensity reflected off an object in a digital imaging-based bar code symbol reading device 2009-01-06
7469835 Digital-imaging based code symbol reading system employing an event-driven multi-tier modular software architecture and supporting automatic operating system login and loading of code symbol reading application Xiaoxun Zhu, Yong Liu, Ka Man Au, Rui Hou, Hongpeng Yu +12 more 2008-12-30
7428998 Automatic hand-supportable image-based bar code symbol reader having image-processing based bar code reading subsystem employing simple decode image processing operations applied in an outwardly-directed manner referenced from the center of a captured narrow-area digital image of an object bearing a 1D bar code symbol Xiaoxun Zhu, Yong Liu, Ka Man Au, Rui Hou, Hongpeng Yu +12 more 2008-09-30