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John F. Van Derlofske, III — 10 Patents

3M: 9 patents #1,781 of 11,543Top 20%
RIRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 1 patents #306 of 819Top 40%
Minneapolis, MN: #650 of 6,114 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #7,600 of 52,454 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
John F. Van Derlofske, III has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in June 2023. John F. Van Derlofske, III ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list John F. Van Derlofske, III in Minneapolis, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2017.peak 42007: 1 patents20072015: 2 patents20152017: 4 patents20172019: 1 patents20192021: 1 patents20212023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11683977 Substrate including a self-supporting tri-layer stack Stephen A. Johnson, Derek W. Patzman, Richard Y. Liu, Kristopher J. Derks, Victor Ho +1 more 2023-06-20 $97,035,000
11016231 Retarder Stephen A. Johnson, Derek W. Patzman, Richard Y. Liu, Victor Ho 2021-05-25 $57,434,000
10197713 Light directing film and method for making the same Alan B. Campbell, Dale L. Ehnes, Mark R. Dupre, Stephen J. Dreyer, Patrick H. Marushin +2 more 2019-02-05 $35,613,000
9810817 Light directing film and method for making the same Alan B. Campbell, Dale L. Ehnes, Mark R. Dupre, Stephen J. Dreyer, Patrick H. Marushin +2 more 2017-11-07 $37,068,000
9690038 Systems and methods for controlling backlight output characteristics Gary T. Boyd, Ji Young Choi, John T. Cowher, Yasuyuki Daigo, Kenneth A. Epstein +19 more 2017-06-27 $26,407,000
9664834 Optical film Ellen R. Bosl, Bert T. Chien, Carsten Franke, Shandon Dee Hart, Brent A. Hedding +11 more 2017-05-30 $26,011,000
9562998 Inconspicuous optical tags and methods therefor William F. Edmonds, Nathaniel K. Naismith, Martin B. Wolk, Michael Benton Free, William W. Merrill +3 more 2017-02-07 $29,265,000
9116285 Light directing film William F. Edmonds, Vivian W. Jones, Keith M. Kotchick, Tri D. Pham 2015-08-25 $22,777,000
8947799 Light directing film William F. Edmonds, Vivian W. Jones, Keith M. Kotchick, Tri D. Pham 2015-02-03 $21,944,000
7258438 Retinal flux density meter and method of use Mark S. Rea, John D. Bullough, Andrew Bierman 2007-08-21