Inventor · Boulder, CO, US

Robert H. Cormack

32Patents
10h-index
47Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 2, 1988 → Feb 28, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6309601A Scanning optical detection system Electricity 147 Expired
US8599301B2 Arrayed imaging systems having improved alignment and associated methods Electricity 132 Active
US9418193B2 Arrayed imaging systems having improved alignment and associated methods Electricity 121 Active
US10002215B2 Arrayed imaging systems having improved alignment and associated methods Electricity 111 Active
US5120126A System for non-contact colored label identification and inspection and method therefor Physics 37 Expired
US6597829B2 1xN optical fiber switch Physics 24 Expired
US4872757A Optical convex surface profiling and gauging apparatus and method therefor Physics 22 Expired
US5167157A Nondestructive inspection system for laminated products Physics 18 Expired
US5245399A System for non-contact colored label identification and inspection and method therefor Physics 14 Expired
US6362904B1 Tunable optical filter with retained complementary output Physics 13 Expired
US6781757B2 Polarization insensitive tunable optical filters Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US4863275A Portable, shock-proof container surface profiling instrumentation Physics 9 Expired
US7652685B2 Iris image capture devices and associated systems Physics 8 Active
US7453653B2 Low height imaging system and associated methods Electricity 8 Expired
US9329407B2 Extended depth field optics with variable pupil diameter Physics 8 Active
US4900916A System employing preconditioned radiation for detecting defects in transparent objects Physics 7 Expired
US6587608B2 Reconfigurable, all optical add/drop nodes using non-interrupting switching apparatus and methods Electricity 7 Expired
US8144208B2 Task-based imaging systems Physics 5 Active
US7944467B2 Task-based imaging systems Physics 5 Active
US6795654B2 Tunable add/drop filter Physics 4 Expired
US8563913B2 Imaging systems having ray corrector, and associated methods Electricity 4 Active
US7710658B2 Zoom lens systems with wavefront coding Physics 4 Active
US11221435B2 Wide-angle beam steering Physics 2 Active
US10613312B2 Scanning imaging for encoded PSF identification and light field imaging Electricity 2 Active
US9325971B2 Engineered point spread function for simultaneous extended depth of field and 3D ranging Physics 2 Active

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