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William Richards — 54 Patents

VSVentana Medical Systems: 43 patents #3 of 483Top 1%
NASA: 4 patents #458 of 3,881Top 15%
ADAccelerate Diagnostics: 3 patents #19 of 30Top 65%
Honeywell: 1 patents #13,120 of 16,504Top 80%
NANational Aeronautics And Space Administration: 1 patents #15 of 161Top 10%
University of California: 1 patents #8,022 of 18,278Top 45%
Tucson, AZ: #96 of 6,004 inventorsTop 2%
Arizona: #394 of 32,909 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #46,969 of 4,157,543Top 2%
54 Patents All Time
William Richards has been granted 54 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ventana Medical Systems. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in November 2023. William Richards ranks #46,969 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list William Richards in Tucson, AZ, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2002.peak 51989: 1 patents19891997: 4 patents2000: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 5 patents2003: 2 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 2 patents2006: 2 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 5 patents2009: 2 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 2 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 3 patents2016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 2 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 2 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 54 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11815518 Automated high volume slide processing system Kurt Reinhardt, Charles D. Lemme, Glen Ward, Wayne Showalter, Brandon Ambler +11 more 2023-11-14
11353524 Optical fiber-based distributed sensing of magnetic field gradients Scott Michael Strutner, Anthony Barra, Gregory P. Carman, Francisco Pena 2022-06-07
11249095 Automated high volume slide processing system Kurt Reinhardt, Charles D. Lemme, Glen Ward, Wayne Showalter, Brandon Ambler +11 more 2022-02-15
11092611 Automated high volume slide processing system Kurt Reinhardt, Charles D. Lemme, Glen Ward, Wayne Showalter, Brandon Ambler +11 more 2021-08-17
10900982 Automated high volume slide processing system Kurt Reinhardt, Charles D. Lemme, Glen Ward, Wayne Showalter, Brandon Ambler +11 more 2021-01-26
10669566 Instrument and system for rapid microorganism identification and antimicrobial agent susceptibility testing Austin Ashby, Matthew Ketterer, Kevin Marshall, Josh Harrison, Matthew Mette +17 more 2020-06-02
10612911 Fiber optic system for monitoring displacement of a structure using quaternion kinematic shape sensing Francisco Pena, Allen R. Parker, Jr., Hon Man Chan 2020-04-07
10302665 Automated high volume slide processing system Kurt Reinhardt, Charles D. Lemme, Glen Ward, Wayne Showalter, Brandon Ambler +11 more 2019-05-28
10253355 Instrument and system for rapid microorganism identification and antimicrobial agent susceptibility testing Austin Ashby, Matthew Ketterer, Kevin Marshall, Josh Harrison, Matthew Mette +17 more 2019-04-09 $6,243,000
10023895 Instrument and system for rapid microogranism identification and antimicrobial agent susceptibility testing Austin Ashby, Matthew Ketterer, Kevin Marshall, Josh Harrison, Matthew Mette +17 more 2018-07-17 $13,758,000
9664506 High speed and high spatial density parameter measurement using fiber optic sensing technology Allen R. Parker, Jr., Hon Man Chan, Anthony Piazza, Philip J Hamory 2017-05-30
9528918 Automated high volume slide processing system Kurt Reinhardt, Charles D. Lemme, Glen Ward, Wayne Showalter, Brandon Ambler +11 more 2016-12-27
9274181 Magneto-optic field coupling in optical fiber Bragg gratings Gregory P. Carman, Panduranga K. Mohanchandra, Michael C. Emmons 2016-03-01
8909040 Method and apparatus of multiplexing and acquiring data from multiple optical fibers using a single data channel of an optical frequency-domain reflectometry (OFDR) system Allen R. Parker, Jr., Hon Man Chan, Anthony Piazza 2014-12-09
8883509 Apparatus and method for biological sample processing Charles D. Lemme, Glen Ward, Austin Ashby, Andrew Ghusson, Lisa Jensen-Long +6 more 2014-11-11
8663991 Automated high volume slide processing system Kurt Reinhardt, Charles D. Lemme, Glen Ward, Wayne Showalter, Brandon Ambler +11 more 2014-03-04
8609023 Memory management method and apparatus for automated biological reaction system Bobbi Druyor-Sanchez, Anthony Ford, Bronwen Heilman, Darin McDaniel, Brian McGraw +2 more 2013-12-17
8147773 Method and apparatus for modifying pressure within a fluid dispenser Charles D. Lemme, Vincent R. Rizzo, Bobbi Druyor-Sanchez, Anthony Ford, Bronwen Heilman +4 more 2012-04-03
8137619 Memory management method and apparatus for automated biological reaction system Anthony Ford, Darin McDaniel, Stephen Mead, Roberta Druyor-Sanchez, Bronwen Heilman +1 more 2012-03-20
8048373 Automated high volume slide staining system Kurt Reinhardt, Charles D. Lemme, Glen Ward, Wayne Showalter 2011-11-01
7935534 Automated molecular pathology apparatus having fixed slide platforms Charles D. Lemme, Devon C. Campbell, Andrew Ghusson, David Bryant, Kurt Reinhardt +2 more 2011-05-03
7715994 Process for using surface strain measurements to obtain operational loads for complex structures William Ko 2010-05-11
7618807 Apparatus for electrophoretic in situ tissue staining Charles D. Lemme, David Bryant, Catherine Wolf, Andrew Ghusson, Austin Ashby +3 more 2009-11-17
7520176 Method for real-time structure shape-sensing William Ko 2009-04-21
7470541 Automated biological reaction apparatus Keith G. Copeland, Thomas Grogan, Charles Hassen, William Ross Humphreys, Charles D. Lemme +2 more 2008-12-30