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James A. Higgins — 10 Patents

3M: 10 patents #1,596 of 11,543Top 15%
River Falls, WI: #33 of 221 inventorsTop 15%
Wisconsin: #4,756 of 40,088 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
James A. Higgins has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in March 2010. James A. Higgins ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list James A. Higgins in River Falls, WI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2007.peak 21997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992002: 1 patents20022005: 1 patents20052007: 2 patents20072008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7674523 Zirconia particles Robert S. Davidson, Brant U. Kolb, Danny B. Anderson, Mark J. Hendrickson, John T. Brady 2010-03-09 $25,154,000
7514263 Continuous process for the production of combinatorial libraries of materials James M. Nelson, Robert S. Davidson, Jeffrey Jacob Cernohous, Michael J. Annen, James R. McNerney +2 more 2009-04-07 $24,863,000
7429422 Zirconia particles Robert S. Davidson, Brant U. Kolb, Danny B. Anderson, Mark J. Hendrickson, John T. Brady 2008-09-30 $59,164,000
7250118 Agglomerated nanoparticles having a rutile-like crystalline phase John T. Brady, David S. Arney, Robert W. Ferguson, Charles J. Studiner, IV 2007-07-31 $31,907,000
7241437 Zirconia particles Robert S. Davidson, Brant U. Kolb, Danny B. Anderson, Mark J. Hendrickson, John T. Brady 2007-07-10 $55,733,000
6962946 Nanoparticles having a rutile-like crystalline phase and method of preparing same John T. Brady, David S. Arney, Robert W. Ferguson, Charles J. Studiner, IV 2005-11-08 $51,163,000
6448353 Continuous process for the production of controlled architecture materials James M. Nelson, Jeffrey Jacob Cernohous, Michael J. Annen, James R. McNerney, Robert W. Ferguson +1 more 2002-09-10 $13,722,000
5882604 Shrouded reaction vessel process Anthony Robert Maistrovich, Wade Douglas Kretman, Dennis Alan Davidson, Katrina M. Jackson, William R. Berggren 1999-03-16 $11,562,000
5814278 Shrouded reaction vessel Anthony Robert Maistrovich, Wade Douglas Kretman, Dennis Alan Davidson, Katrina M. Jackson, William R. Berggren 1998-09-29 $18,493,000
5644007 Continuous process for the production of poly(1-alkenes) Robert S. Davidson, Robert W. Ferguson, Barry Eugene Heldman, Timothy J. Diekmann, Anthony Robert Maistrovich +1 more 1997-07-01 $13,401,000