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David L. Nelson — 15 Patents

3M: 4 patents #3,453 of 11,543Top 30%
Xerox: 2 patents #3,932 of 8,622Top 50%
NONovell: 1 patents #346 of 701Top 50%
HOHowmedica: 1 patents #58 of 135Top 45%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
UMUniversity of Minnesota: 1 patents #1,216 of 2,951Top 45%
Nortel Networks Limited: 1 patents #2,518 of 5,294Top 50%
San Jose, CA: #4,373 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #40,789 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
David L. Nelson has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in May 2023. David L. Nelson ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list David L. Nelson in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1993.peak 31980: 1 patents19801983: 1 patents1987: 1 patents19871990: 1 patents1993: 3 patents19931998: 2 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents2020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11647479 Multi-level signal transmission system for wireless device location Richard H. Spellman 2023-05-09
11315408 Emergency communications system Richard H. Spellman 2022-04-26
10801222 Separately owned workshops with shared central building Jennifer Kelly Heine Clemmons 2020-10-13
7924453 Portable memory printing device and method Mithila Patwardhan, David P. Rich 2011-04-12 $3,848,000
7896344 Automatic self-clearing feature for paper jams in marking machines Joyce Nakada, Shahana Rahman, David P. Rich 2011-03-01 $4,023,000
7757811 Multilayer articles having acoustical absorbance properties and methods of making and using the same Andrew R. Fox, David A. Olson, Eric M. Moore, Michael R. Berrigan, Bradley W. Eaton +1 more 2010-07-20 $20,517,000
5814070 Suture anchor and driver Rocco R. Borzone, John S. Crombie 1998-09-29 $346,440,000
5719786 Digital media data stream network management system Premkumar V. Uppaluru, Pasquale Romano, Jeffrey L. Kleiman 1998-02-17 $37,175,000
5230800 Scrim inserted electrostatic fibrous filter web 1993-07-27 $23,551,000
5197945 Alginate wound dressing of good integrity Susan M. Cole 1993-03-30 $20,669,000
5196379 Method of depositing oxide passivation layers on high temperature superconductors John Weaver, Robert K. Grasselli, Harry M. Meyer, III, Donald M. Hill 1993-03-23
4965244 CaF.sub.2 passivation layers for high temperature superconductors John Weaver, Robert K. Grasselli, Harry M. Meyer, III, Donald M. Hill 1990-10-23
4634612 Decorative ribbon and sheet material Bernard S. Truskolaski, Paul E. Hansen 1987-01-06 $5,619,000
4414589 Embedded servo track following system and method for writing servo tracks Theodore A. Oliver, Keat-Lye Chan 1983-11-08 $5,251,000
4223390 System and method for attaching magnetic storage devices having dissimilar track capacities and recording formats Earl Q. Bowers 1980-09-16 $25,370,000