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Bruce A. Nerad — 18 Patents

3M: 16 patents #943 of 11,543Top 9%
UPUniversity Patents: 1 patents #72 of 224Top 35%
NASA: 1 patents #1,837 of 3,881Top 50%
Burbank, CA: #51 of 2,041 inventorsTop 3%
California: #33,102 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Bruce A. Nerad has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in October 2020. Bruce A. Nerad ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Bruce A. Nerad in Burbank, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2008.peak 31984: 1 patents19841988: 1 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 2 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 2 patents2006: 1 patents20062008: 3 patents2011: 1 patents20112017: 1 patents2020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10814640 Method for improving durability of ink jet printed ink Michael R. Kesti 2020-10-27 $42,221,000
9718975 Radiation curable ink composition 2017-08-01 $30,469,000
7943681 Weather resistant, ink jettable, radiation curable, fluid compositions particularly suitable for outdoor applications Jennifer L. Lee, Ronald K. Thery, Caroline M. Ylitalo, Richard L. Severance, Dong Wu +3 more 2011-05-17 $15,869,000
7423072 Weather resistant, ink jettable, radiation curable, fluid compositions particularly suitable for outdoor applications Jennifer L. Lee, Ronald K. Thery, Caroline M. Ylitalo, Richard L. Severance, Dong Wu +3 more 2008-09-09 $21,968,000
7369122 Touch panel spacer dots and methods of making Elisa M. Cross, Robert S. Moshrefzadeh, Jessica Voss-Kehl, Brant U. Kolb, Emily S. Goenner +2 more 2008-05-06 $20,632,000
7341621 Ink set and ink jet recording method Richard L. Rosenberg 2008-03-11 $15,868,000
7140711 Method and apparatus for inkjet printing using radiation curable ink Robin E. Wright, Richard L. Severance, William J. Hunt, Caroline M. Ylitalo 2006-11-28 $9,230,000
6830713 Method for making coPEN/PMMA multilayer optical films Timothy J. Hebrink, Yaoqi J. Liu, William W. Merrill, John A. Wheatley 2004-12-14 $36,193,000
6676869 Continuous process for indirect printing of polymeric films having texture Brandon T. Berg, Tony B. Hollobaugh, David D. Nguyen, Bruce H. Koehler 2004-01-13 $16,496,000
6569515 Multilayered polymer films with recyclable or recycled layers Timothy J. Hebrink, Yaoqui Joe Liu, William W. Merrill 2003-05-27 $17,300,000
6554414 Rotatable drum inkjet printing apparatus for radiation curable ink Caroline M. Ylitalo, Richard L. Severance 2003-04-29 $19,244,000
6467897 Energy curable inks and other compositions incorporating surface modified, nanometer-sized particles Dong Wu, Brant U. Kolb, Kevin M. Eliason, Kanta Kumar, Jennifer L. Lee +2 more 2002-10-22 $30,009,000
6208466 Multilayer reflector with selective transmission Yaoqi J. Liu, Laurence R. Gilbert, Robert L. Brott, Michael F. Weber, Kelly M. Roscoe +1 more 2001-03-27 $50,057,000
5641426 Light modulating device having a vinyl ether-based matrix George F. Vesley 1997-06-24 $14,949,000
5593615 Light modulating device having a matrix prepared from acid reactants George F. Vesley 1997-01-14 $12,261,000
5585035 Light modulating device having a silicon-containing matrix George F. Vesley 1996-12-17 $11,025,000
4755297 Continuous countercurrent membrane column for the separation of solute/solvent and solvent/solvent systems William B. Krantz 1988-07-05 $451,000
4459470 Glass heating panels and method for preparing the same from architectural reflective glass Paul J. Shlichta 1984-07-10