William E. Lorensen
32Patents
25h-index
46Co-inventors
85Inventor score
Filing activity: Jan 3, 1983 → Aug 29, 2008
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5740802A | Computer graphic and live video system for enhancing visualization of body structures during surgery | Electricity | 443 | Expired |
| US5611025A | Virtual internal cavity inspection system | Physics | 290 | Expired |
| US4821213A | System for the simultaneous display of two or more internal surfaces within a solid object | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 229 | Expired |
| US4710876A | System and method for the display of surface structures contained within the interior region of a solid body | Physics | 202 | Expired |
| US4729098A | System and method employing nonlinear interpolation for the display of surface structures contained within the interior region of a solid body | Physics | 181 | Expired |
| US6631322B1 | Method and apparatus for vehicle management | Performing Operations; Transporting | 155 | Expired |
| US4984157A | System and method for displaying oblique planar cross sections of a solid body using tri-linear interpolation to determine pixel position dataes | Physics | 149 | Expired |
| US4719585A | Dividing cubes system and method for the display of surface structures contained within the interior region of a solid body | Physics | 147 | Expired |
| US5345490A | Method and apparatus for converting computed tomography (CT) data into finite element models | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 136 | Expired |
| US4751643A | Method and apparatus for determining connected substructures within a body | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 126 | Expired |
| US5365927A | Magnetic resonance imaging system with pointing device | Physics | 113 | Expired |
| US4879668A | Method of displaying internal surfaces of three-dimensional medical images | Human Necessities | 112 | Expired |
| US5187658A | System and method for segmenting internal structures contained within the interior region of a solid object | Physics | 90 | Expired |
| US5166876A | System and method for detecting internal structures contained within the interior region of a solid object | Physics | 88 | Expired |
| US5204625A | Segmentation of stationary and vascular surfaces in magnetic resonance imaging | Physics | 84 | Expired |
| US4791567A | Three dimensional connectivity system employing an equivalence schema for determining connected substructures within a body | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 78 | Expired |
| US4525858A | Method and apparatus for reconstruction of three-dimensional surfaces from interference fringes | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US5146557A | User interface for a golf green and a golf putt modelling system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 66 | Expired |
| US5458126A | Cardiac functional analysis system employing gradient image segmentation | Physics | 55 | Expired |
| US4831528A | Apparatus and method for improvement of 3D images derived from tomographic data | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US5412563A | Gradient image segmentation method | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US5542036A | Implicit modeling of swept volumes and swept surfaces | Physics | 33 | Expired |
| US5433199A | Cardiac functional analysis method using gradient image segmentation | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7058210B2 | Method and system for lung disease detection | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US5682506A | Method and system for group visualization of virtual objects | Physics | 28 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.