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Michael S. Groess — 8 Patents

3M: 8 patents #1,969 of 11,543Top 20%
Oakdale, MN: #77 of 368 inventorsTop 25%
Minnesota: #9,348 of 52,454 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Michael S. Groess has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in May 2008. Michael S. Groess ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Michael S. Groess in Oakdale, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2000.peak 21994: 1 patents19941996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19982000: 2 patents20002007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7379245 Articles including films with mating structured surfaces James A. Stevenson 2008-05-27 $23,991,000
7289202 Methods for testing durable optical elements Stephan J. Pankratz 2007-10-30 $25,969,000
6127002 Method of magnetically and/or electrostatically positioning pressure-sensitive adhesive beads and magnetically positionable pressure-sensitive adhesive beads Joseph P. Callahan, Jr., Rudyard M. Enanoza, Mark D. Weigel 2000-10-03 $25,340,000
6013149 Pad including coadhesively adhered sheets Lee A. Timmerman, Randall M. Mills, Robert P. Molenda 2000-01-11 $26,243,000
5755355 Pad including coadhesively adhered sheets Lee A. Timmerman, Randall M. Mills, Robert P. Molenda 1998-05-26 $9,818,000
5599618 Method of magnetically and/or electrostatically positioning pressure-sensitive adhesive beads and magnetically positionable pressure-sensitive Joseph P. Callahan, Jr., Rudyard M. Enanoza, Mark D. Weigel 1997-02-04 $17,888,000
5518144 Dispenser package Bruce E. Samuelson, William L. Hansen, James R. Emmerling, Elmer Blackwell, James M. Peck +6 more 1996-05-21 $10,838,000
5332265 Advertising assembly Douglas P. Bodziak 1994-07-26 $6,884,000