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John S. Huizinga — 23 Patents

3M: 23 patents #547 of 11,543Top 5%
UCUniversity Of British Columbia: 1 patents #582 of 1,308Top 45%
White Bear Lake, MN: #27 of 561 inventorsTop 5%
Minnesota: #2,936 of 52,454 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
John S. Huizinga has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in January 2017. John S. Huizinga ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list John S. Huizinga in White Bear Lake, MN, US.

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Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9551816 Retroreflecting optical construction William D. Coggio, Michael L. Steiner, Robert F. Watkins, Encai Hao, William Blake Kolb +7 more 2017-01-24 $21,264,000
9291752 Retroreflecting optical construction William D. Coggio, Michael L. Steiner, Robert F. Watkins, Encai Hao, William Blake Kolb +7 more 2016-03-22 $15,749,000
8968629 Apparatus and method for producing two-sided patterned web in registration John T. Strand, James N. Dobbs, Thomas B. Hunter, William V. Dower, Daniel H. Carlson +6 more 2015-03-03 $12,786,000
8740599 Apparatus and method for producing two-sided patterned web in registration Vincent W. King, John T. Strand, James N. Dobbs, Thomas B. Hunter, William V. Dower +9 more 2014-06-03 $13,840,000
8534849 Retroreflecting optical construction William D. Coggio, Michael L. Steiner, Robert F. Watkins, Encai Hao, William Blake Kolb +7 more 2013-09-17 $11,357,000
8149351 Passive and hybrid daylight-coupled backlights for sunlight viewable displays Rolf W. Biernath, Jennifer R. Yi, Keith M. Kotchick 2012-04-03 $17,990,000
8068187 Stereoscopic 3D liquid crystal display apparatus having a double sided prism film comprising cylindrical lenses and non-contiguous prisms Rolf W. Biernath, Vincent W. King, John C. Schultz, Michael J. Sykora, Robert L. Brott 2011-11-29 $15,523,000
7931841 Microreplicated article Vincent W. King, John T. Strand, James N. Dobbs, Thomas B. Hunter, Samuel Hunter +4 more 2011-04-26 $31,327,000
7830368 Keypad with virtual image Charles A. Marttila, John T. Strand, Alan G. Hulme-Lowe, M. Benton Free, James N. Dobbs +4 more 2010-11-09 $20,831,000
7767273 Apparatus and method for producing two-sided patterned web in registration Vincent W. King, John T. Strand, James N. Dobbs, Thomas B. Hunter, William V. Dower +9 more 2010-08-03 $12,994,000
7677101 Estimating propagation velocity through a surface acoustic wave sensor Wenyuan Xu 2010-03-16 $16,632,000
7576905 Electrostatically-controlled diffraction gratings using ionic electrophoresis Lorne A. Whitehead 2009-08-18 $52,676,000
7417798 Microreplicated article Vincent W. King, William V. Dower, David W. Kuhns, Gregory F. King, John T. Strand +4 more 2008-08-26 $21,602,000
7418202 Article having a birefringent surface and microstructured features having a variable pitch or angles for use as a blur filter Rolf W. Biernath, Robert L. Brott, William W. Merrill, William B. Black 2008-08-26 $21,602,000
7399609 Staphylococcus detection Brinda B. Lakshmi, Angela K. Dillow, M. Benton Free, Patrick A. Mach, Dasaratha V. Sridhar 2008-07-15 $18,218,000
7224529 Microreplicated article Vincent W. King, William V. Dower, David W. Kuhns, Gregory F. King, John T. Strand +4 more 2007-05-29 $35,213,000
7165959 Apparatus and method for producing two-sided patterned webs in registration Thomas B. Hunter, Daniel H. Carlson, James N. Dobbs, John T. Strand, Gregory F. King +3 more 2007-01-23 $22,702,000
6991717 Web processing method and apparatus Gregory F. King, James N. Dobbs, Luther E. Erickson, Daniel H. Carlson, Dale L. Ehnes +1 more 2006-01-31 $18,311,000
6407669 RFID tag device and method of manufacturing Katherine A. Brown, James N. Dobbs, William C. Egbert, Luther E. Erickson, Gregory F. King 2002-06-18 $13,155,000
5522785 Infinitely variable diameter roller Douglas M. Kedl 1996-06-04 $15,392,000
5506407 High resolution high speed film measuring apparatus and method John Joseph Costello 1996-04-09 $11,265,000
4328280 Suppression of spark discharges from negatively triboelectrically charged surfaces John Stevens 1982-05-04 $4,249,000
4313978 Antistatic compositions and treatment John Stevens, Stephen D. Newman 1982-02-02 $7,240,000