Inventor · Royal Oak, MI, US

George K. Schuster

15Patents
8h-index
7Co-inventors
61Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 19, 2003 → Sep 11, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7616095B2 Electronic token to provide sequential event control and monitoring Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 64 Active
US10325485B1 System or process to detect, discriminate, aggregate, track, and rank safety related information in a collaborative workspace Physics 23 Active
US8046588B2 Audit trail in a programmable safety instrumented system via biometric signature(s) Physics 19 Active
US7076311B2 Configurable safety system for implementation on industrial system and method of implementing same Physics 17 Expired
US7533798B2 Data acquisition and processing system for risk assessment Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Active
US7932809B2 RFID/biometric area protection Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US7508512B1 Continuous optical self-alignment for light curtains and optical presence sensors for simplification and maintenance of alignment Physics 10 Active
US7522066B2 Systems and methods that evaluate distance to potential hazards utilizing overlapping sensing zones Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 9 Active
US7313502B2 System and method to combine and weight multiple sensors with overlapping sensing range to create a measurement system utilized in a high integrity or safety environment Physics 7 Expired
US7657814B2 Optimizing availability and safety by reconfiguring and auto-adjusting redundancy Physics 4 Active
US7539550B2 Safety versus availability graphical user interface Physics 4 Active
US7652759B1 Industrial device with adaptive optics Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 2 Active
US7442917B1 Method for using a single optical emitter/receiver pair for creating a light curtain using LCD+MEMS technology for beam deflection Physics 1 Expired
USRE42017E1 Configurable safety system for implementation on industrial system and method of implementing same General 1 Active
US7933676B2 Automation system with integrated safe and standard control functionality Physics 0 Expired

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