John Gardner
41Patents
17h-index
47Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jun 24, 1981 → Nov 5, 2020
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5540682A | Electrosurgery apparatus | Human Necessities | 92 | Expired |
| US6544449B1 | Process for making decorative automotive interior trim articles with integral in-mold coated polyurethane aromatic elastomer covering | Performing Operations; Transporting | 48 | Expired |
| US5885662A | Decorative automotive interior trim articles with integral light stable polyurethane elastomer covering and process for making the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Expired |
| USD455776S1 | Set of raised symbol elements | General | 43 | Expired |
| US7775436B2 | Method of driving a plurality of visible and invisible LEDs so as to produce an illumination beam having a dynamically managed ratio of visible to invisible (IR) spectral energy/power during object illumination and imaging operations | Physics | 39 | Active |
| US5131678A | Invisible air bag cover door | Performing Operations; Transporting | 39 | Expired |
| US6753057B1 | Trim articles with light stable covering containing invisible tear seam, and process of making the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 38 | Expired |
| US6013210A | Process for making decorative automotive interior trim articles with cast integral light stable covering | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 37 | Expired |
| US5390382A | Patient support tables and monitors | Human Necessities | 36 | Expired |
| US6017617A | Decorative automotive interior trim articles with integral light stable polyurethane elastomer covering and process for making the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 29 | Expired |
| US7954719B2 | Tunnel-type digital imaging-based self-checkout system for use in retail point-of-sale environments | Human Necessities | 29 | Active |
| US7546952B2 | Method of illuminating objects during digital image capture operations by mixing visible and invisible spectral illumination energy at point of sale (POS) environments | Physics | 22 | Active |
| US6210614A | Process of making decorative automotive interior trim articles with cast integral light-stable covering containing invisible tear seam | Performing Operations; Transporting | 20 | Expired |
| US7588188B2 | Pos-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques | Physics | 18 | Active |
| US7571858B2 | POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques | Physics | 18 | Active |
| US7575170B2 | POS-based digital image capturing and processing system using automatic object detection, spectral-mixing based illumination and linear imaging techniques | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US7806335B2 | Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing objects in a POS environment | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US8042740B2 | Method of reading bar code symbols on objects at a point-of-sale station by passing said objects through a complex of stationary coplanar illumination and imaging planes projected into a 3D imaging volume | Physics | 16 | Active |
| US7614560B2 | Method of illuminating objects at a point of sale (POS) station by adaptively controlling the spectral composition of the wide-area illumination beam produced from an illumination subsystem within an automatic digital image capture and processing system | Physics | 14 | Active |
| USD275694S | Articulated doll | General | 13 | Expired |
| US6656596B1 | Decorative automotive interior trim articles with cast integral light stable covering and process for making the same | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 12 | Expired |
| US7731091B2 | Digital image capturing and processing system employing automatic object detection and spectral-mixing based illumination techniques | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US8857198B2 | Icemaker shut off method for premature harvest reduction | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 9 | Active |
| US7878407B2 | POS-based digital image capturing and processing system employing automatic object motion detection and spectral-mixing based illumination techniques | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US7784698B2 | Digital image capturing and processing system for automatically recognizing graphical intelligence graphically represented in digital images of objects | Physics | 8 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.