Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

John Groot

47Patents
14h-index
23Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 6, 1992 → Sep 16, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6971580B2 AUTOMATED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DIMENSIONING OBJECTS OVER A CONVEYOR BELT STRUCTURE BY APPLYING CONTOURING TRACING, VERTICE DETECTION, CORNER POINT DETECTION, AND CORNER POINT REDUCTION METHODS TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANGE DATA MAPS OF THE SPACE ABOVE THE CONVEYOR BELT CAPTURED BY AN AMPLITUDE MODULATED LASER SCANNING BEAM Physics 172 Expired
US6705526B1 AUTOMATED METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DIMENSIONING OBJECTS TRANSPORTED THROUGH A WORK ENVIRONMENT USING CONTOUR TRACING, VERTICE DETECTION, CORNER POINT DETECTION, AND CORNER POINT REDUCTION METHODS ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL RANGE DATA MAPS CAPTURED BY AN AMPLITUDE MODULATED LASER SCANNING BEAM Physics 118 Expired
US6758402B1 Bioptical holographic laser scanning system Physics 113 Expired
US6540140B1 Web-enabled system and method for designing and manufacturing bar code scanners Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 41 Expired
US6290132A Holographic-based bar code symbol position detection system for producing bar code symbol position data specifying the position of a detected bar code symbol within a 3-D scanning volume above a conveyor belt structure Physics 38 Expired
US5247167A Multiple beam power monitoring system and method with radiation detection and focusing means of overlapping beams Electricity 32 Expired
US6085978A Holographic laser scanners of modular construction and method and apparatus for designing and manufacturing the same Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US6474556B2 Laser scanning system mounted over a conveyor belt along which packages bearing bar code symbols are transported and scanned Physics 23 Expired
US6439462B1 Conveyor-belt mounted bar code symbol reading system employing a steerable bar code symbol scanner to automatically scan bar code symbols detected by a holographic-based bar code position detector Physics 19 Expired
US7051922B2 Compact bioptical laser scanning system Physics 17 Expired
US6375074B1 Holographic laser scanner for producing a highly-defined three-dimensional scanning volume having multiple focal regions within which the laser scanlines are spatially confined Physics 17 Expired
US6158659A Holographic laser scanning system having multiple laser scanning stations for producing a 3-D scanning volume substantially free of spatially and temporally coincident scanning planes Physics 16 Expired
US6328215A Method and system for automatically identifying packages during package sortation operations manually carried out by a human operator Physics 15 Expired
US7407103B2 Bioptical holographic laser scanning system Physics 14 Active
US6991167B2 Bioptical laser scanning system providing 360° of omnidirectional bar code symbol scanning coverage at a point of sale (POS) station Physics 14 Expired
US5975419A Holographic laser scanner generating a high-resolution 2-D raster scanning pattern using a holographic scanning disc Physics 13 Expired
US6422466B1 Method of and system for automatically identifying packages during package transport operations carried out by a human operator walking through the doorway of a storage container Physics 13 Expired
US6561424B1 Method of and system for automatically identifying packages during package transport operations carried out by a human operator walking through the doorway of a storage warehouse Physics 12 Expired
US6547144B1 Holographic laser scanning system for carrying out light collection operations with improved light collection efficiency Physics 12 Expired
US5984185A Laser scanning system employing parabolic light collection surfaces having optical axes disposed off the Bragg angle of the holographic optical elements of the holographic scanning disc thereof Physics 11 Expired
US6199759A Bar code symbol scanning system having a holographic laser scanning disc utilizing maximum light collection surface area thereof and having scanning facets with optimized light collection efficiency Physics 10 Expired
US6530522B1 Holographic laser scanning system having multiple laser scanning stations for producing a 3-D scanning volume substantially free of spatially and temporally coincident scanning planes Physics 10 Expired
US6523750B1 Laser scanning system employing light collection surfaces having optical axes disposed off the bragg angle of the holographic optical elements of the holographic scanning disc thereof Physics 10 Expired
US6006993A Holographic laser scanning system for carrying out laser beam scanning operations with improved scan angle multiplication efficiency and carrying out light collection operations with improved light collection efficiency Physics 9 Expired
US6840449B2 Laser scanning system having multiple laser scanning stations for producing a 3-D scanning volume substantially free of spatially and temporally coincident scanning planes Physics 8 Expired

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