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White's Electronics, Inc.

32Patents
10Active
32Granted
39Portfolio score

Filing activity: Nov 25, 1974 → Sep 9, 2016 · 2 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5325873A Tube placement verifier system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 405 Expired
US4024468A Induction balance metal detector with inverse discrimination Physics 66 Expired
US4030026A Sampling metal detector Physics 62 Expired
US4249128A Wide pulse gated metal detector with improved noise rejection Physics 54 Expired
US4868910A Metal detector with microprocessor control and analysis Physics 31 Expired
US4110679A Ferrous/non-ferrous metal detector using sampling Physics 30 Expired
US5642050A Plural frequency method and system for identifying metal objects in a background environment using a target model Physics 29 Expired
US4906973A Walk-through metal detector Physics 29 Expired
US5654638A Plural Frequency method and system for identifying metal objects in a background environment Physics 27 Expired
US5523690A Metal detector with bivariate display Physics 25 Expired
US5414411A Pulse induction metal detector Physics 24 Expired
US6879161B2 Method and apparatus for distinguishing metal objects employing multiple frequency interrogation Physics 17 Expired
US4293816A Balanced search loop for metal detector Physics 16 Expired
US6911823B2 Metal detector employing static discrimination Physics 15 Expired
US4862316A Static charge dissipating housing for metal detector search loop assembly Electricity 14 Expired
US8729902B1 Metal detector analysis and display methods Physics 12 Active
US4783630A Metal detector with circuits for automatically screening out the effects of offset and mineralized ground Physics 10 Expired
US7088103B2 Metal detector having a plurality of phase delay discrimination regions with corresponding selectable exception spaces therein Physics 8 Expired
US7649356B2 Pulse induction metal detector having high energy efficiency and sensitivity Physics 7 Expired
US5596277A Method and apparatus for displaying signal information from a metal detector Physics 7 Expired
US9207315B1 Metal detector with motion sensing Physics 7 Active
US6172504A Metal detector target identification using flash phase analysis Physics 7 Expired
US6421621B1 Metal detector target identification using flash phase analysis Physics 7 Expired
US7391217B2 Metal detection methods and apparatus wherein a numeric representation of the sense signal and a noise contribution to the sense signal are produced Physics 6 Active
US7148692B2 Detector for non-ferrous metals with reduced false positive responses Physics 5 Expired

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