Inventor · Greensburg, PA, US

Michael Hall

119Patents
11h-index
93Co-inventors
83Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 15, 1988 → Jan 24, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4976261A Endotracheal tube with inflatable cuffs Human Necessities 113 Expired
US9026814B2 Power and load management based on contextual information Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Active
US11236993B1 Depth sensing using a time of flight system including a scanning beam in combination with a single photon avalanche diode array Electricity 48 Active
US4912682A Point location determination at or close to the surface Physics 35 Expired
US10108261B1 Eye tracking based on light polarization Physics 26 Active
US10181200B1 Circularly polarized illumination and detection for depth sensing Physics 21 Active
US9244583B2 Adjusting user interface screen order and composition Physics 19 Active
US9395233B2 Mass, drag coefficient and inclination determination using accelerometer sensor Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 15 Active
US10410373B1 Calibration of a phase interferometry depth camera assembly Physics 14 Active
US10412371B1 Thin film acousto-optic structured light generator Physics 13 Active
US10311584B1 Estimation of absolute depth from polarization measurements Physics 11 Active
US9210404B2 Calibration and registration of camera arrays using a single circular grid optical target Physics 10 Active
US10977815B1 Structured light eye-tracking Electricity 10 Active
US9681123B2 Time-of-flight phase-offset calibration Electricity 9 Active
US9558040B2 Memory manager with enhanced application metadata Physics 8 Active
US10491877B1 Depth camera assembly using multiplexed sensor phase measurements to determine depth using fringe interferometry Physics 7 Active
US10574973B2 Non-mechanical beam steering for depth sensing Physics 7 Active
US9804696B2 User-input control device toggled motion tracking Human Necessities 7 Active
US10929997B1 Selective propagation of depth measurements using stereoimaging Electricity 7 Active
US10902623B1 Three-dimensional imaging with spatial and temporal coding for depth camera assembly Physics 7 Active
US9958383B2 Range camera Physics 7 Active
US10295827B1 Diffractive optics beam shaping for structured light generator Physics 6 Active
US10237481B2 Event camera for generation of event-based images Physics 6 Active
US9210417B2 Real-time registration of a stereo depth camera array Electricity 6 Active
US10178381B2 Depth-spatial frequency-response assessment Physics 6 Active

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