Lawrence B. Brown
27Patents
14h-index
32Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Apr 30, 1985 → Dec 29, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US4790651A | Tracking laser interferometer | Physics | 212 | Expired |
| US7800758B1 | Laser-based coordinate measuring device and laser-based method for measuring coordinates | Physics | 195 | Active |
| US7388654B2 | Retroreflector covered by window | Physics | 88 | Expired |
| US4621926A | Interferometer system for controlling non-rectilinear movement of an object | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US5861956A | Retroreflector for use with tooling ball | Physics | 66 | Expired |
| US8670114B2 | Device and method for measuring six degrees of freedom | Physics | 55 | Active |
| US5530549A | Probing retroreflector and methods of measuring surfaces therewith | Physics | 51 | Expired |
| US8537376B2 | Enhanced position detector in laser tracker | Physics | 42 | Active |
| US8525983B2 | Device and method for measuring six degrees of freedom | Physics | 39 | Active |
| US10082521B2 | System for measuring six degrees of freedom | Physics | 28 | Active |
| US8740396B2 | Cube corner retroreflector for measuring six degrees of freedom | Physics | 24 | Active |
| US8049867B2 | Laser tracker and method for measing location and orientation of a patterned target | Physics | 22 | Active |
| US4700045A | Seam tracking system with acousto-optical scanner | Performing Operations; Transporting | 22 | Expired |
| USRE45565E1 | Laser-based coordinate measuring device and laser-based method for measuring coordinates | General | 22 | Active |
| US8081297B2 | Laser tracker having a camera with a constant magnification | Physics | 12 | Active |
| US8040525B2 | Laser tracker including a locator camera | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US8120780B2 | Laser-based coordinate measuring device and laser-based method for measuring coordinates | Physics | 10 | Active |
| US8472029B2 | Methods for using a locator camera in a laser tracker | Physics | 7 | Active |
| US8681320B2 | Gimbal instrument having a prealigned and replaceable optics bench | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US9903934B2 | Apparatus and method of measuring six degrees of freedom | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8958055B2 | Laser-based coordinate measuring with a camera for target orientation | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US9631922B2 | Locator camera arrangement having multiple light sources | Physics | 2 | Active |
| US7268871B2 | Measuring head for planar measurement of a sample | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US6529333B1 | Multi-color machine vision system | Physics | 1 | Expired |
| US9631921B2 | Intensity modulation at two frequencies for interferometric measuring of distance | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.