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William E. Nelson — 64 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 50 patents #144 of 12,488Top 2%
Xerox: 8 patents #1,593 of 8,622Top 20%
AMAmoco: 4 patents #185 of 1,251Top 15%
ANAgfa-Gevaert Nv: 3 patents #507 of 1,819Top 30%
GAGretag Imaging Ag: 1 patents #15 of 51Top 30%
San Diego, CA: #483 of 23,606 inventorsTop 3%
California: #5,241 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #34,494 of 4,157,543Top 1%
64 Patents All Time
William E. Nelson has been granted 64 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in August 2016. William E. Nelson ranks #34,494 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.83%). Patent records list William E. Nelson in San Diego, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 64 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9428257 Extended endurance air vehicle 2016-08-30
8493612 Predicting an expansion difficulty and an expansion time required to perform a rendering operation James M. Sweet 2013-07-23 $2,518,000
8144355 Method and apparatus for improving raster image processing performance for variable information printing having reusable objects James M. Sweet 2012-03-27 $2,301,000
7414757 Method for compressing printing hint data sent to a printer George L. Eldridge, Peter A. Crean, Jon S. McElvain 2008-08-19 $3,619,000
7218784 Method and apparatus for controlling image quality and compression ratios Norman W. Zeck, Remo J. D'Ortenzio 2007-05-15 $5,135,000
6804401 Method for compressing digital documents with control of image quality subject to multiple compression rate constraints James M. Sweet, Remo J. D'Ortenzio 2004-10-12 $9,501,000
6731814 Method for compressing digital documents with control of image quality and compression rate Norman W. Zeck, Peter A. Crean, Sang-Chul Kang, David E. Rumph, George L. Eldridge 2004-05-04 $5,867,000
6650261 Sliding window compression method utilizing defined match locations James M. Sweet, Norman W. Zeck, Ronald E. Rider 2003-11-18 $5,634,000
6583921 Micromechanical device and method for non-contacting edge-coupled operation 2003-06-24 $22,158,000
6414706 High resolution digital printing with spatial light modulator John B. Allen, Albert Barge Smanio Coit, Curt R. Raschke 2002-07-02 $25,855,000
6163363 Photofinishing utilizing modulated light source array Beat Frick 2000-12-19 $125,758,000
6061075 Non-systolic time delay and integration printing Paul M. Urbanus, Jeffrey B. Sampsell, Robert Mark Boysel 2000-05-09 $66,335,000
6034703 Process control of electrophotographic device Dirk Broddin, Jean-Pierre J. Slabbaert, Frank Deschuytere, Robert Janssens, Werner Heirbaut +1 more 2000-03-07 $113,788,000
6011631 Uniform exposure of photosensitive medium by square intensity profiles for printing Dirk Broddin, Frank Deschuytere, Robert Janssens, Vadlamannati Venkateswar 2000-01-04 $84,479,000
5920755 Electrophotographic color printer with belt-to-belt toner transfer and top-side paper path 1999-07-06 $123,162,000
5771060 Method for printing control in the process direction 1998-06-23 $32,131,000
5729276 Method for printing using horizontal offset 1998-03-17 $17,390,000
5696549 Method of reducing print artifacts 1997-12-09 $9,063,000
5672464 Method and apparatus for patterning an imaging member 1997-09-30 $22,301,000
5627580 System and method for enhanced printing 1997-05-06 $13,556,000
5614937 Method for high resolution printing 1997-03-25 $8,984,000
5610337 Method of measuring the amplitude and frequency of an acceleration 1997-03-11 $9,624,000
5523193 Method and apparatus for patterning and imaging member 1996-06-04 $6,943,000
5510824 Spatial light modulator array 1996-04-23 $10,771,000
5504514 System and method for solid state illumination for spatial light modulators 1996-04-02 $5,330,000