Inventor · Beaverton, OR, US

Ammon E. Gustafson

26Patents
19h-index
14Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Apr 1, 1998 → Aug 11, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6614914B1 Watermark embedder and reader Electricity 936 Expired
US6574350B1 Digital watermarking employing both frail and robust watermarks Electricity 243 Expired
US6636615B1 Methods and systems using multiple watermarks Physics 229 Expired
US6332031A Multiple watermarking techniques for documents and other data Physics 198 Expired
US6728390B2 Methods and systems using multiple watermarks Physics 131 Expired
US6744906B2 Methods and systems using multiple watermarks Physics 111 Expired
US7054462B2 Inferring object status based on detected watermark data Electricity 108 Expired
US6850626B2 Methods employing multiple watermarks Electricity 103 Expired
US6442284B1 Watermark detection utilizing regions with higher probability of success Physics 96 Expired
US8144368B2 Automated methods for distinguishing copies from original printed objects Electricity 75 Active
US7266217B2 Multiple watermarks in content Electricity 75 Active
US7171020B2 Method for utilizing fragile watermark for enhanced security Physics 75 Expired
US7013021B2 Watermark detection utilizing regions with higher probability of success Electricity 70 Expired
US7054463B2 Data encoding using frail watermarks Electricity 69 Expired
US6804376B2 Equipment employing watermark-based authentication function Electricity 56 Expired
US7539325B2 Documents and methods involving multiple watermarks Physics 55 Expired
US6915002B2 Multi-carrier watermarks using carrier signals modulated with auxiliary messages Physics 50 Expired
US6763122B1 Watermarking an image in color plane separations and detecting such watermarks Electricity 45 Expired
US7400743B2 Methods to evaluate images, video and documents Physics 27 Active
US6594373B1 Multi-carrier watermarks using carrier signals modulated with auxiliary messages Physics 18 Expired
US7574014B2 Digital watermark detection utilizing host carrier information Electricity 15 Active
US7978875B2 Signal processing utilizing host carrier information Electricity 13 Active
US7480393B2 Optimized digital watermarking functions for streaming data Physics 10 Active
US7957552B2 Optimized digital watermarking functions for streaming data Physics 2 Active
US6286105A Method for implementing link-level security to enforce access privileges Physics 2 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.