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Robert D. Taylor — 37 Patents

3M: 24 patents #514 of 11,543Top 5%
TCTime Warner Cable: 6 patents #88 of 344Top 30%
TATaylor-Listug: 4 patents #3 of 7Top 45%
EIEeco Incorporated: 1 patents #4 of 11Top 40%
THThiokol: 1 patents #121 of 275Top 45%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Stacy, MN: #3 of 81 inventorsTop 4%
Minnesota: #1,464 of 52,454 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #88,321 of 4,157,543Top 3%
37 Patents All Time
Robert D. Taylor has been granted 37 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in September 2025. Robert D. Taylor ranks #88,321 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.1%). Patent records list Robert D. Taylor in Stacy, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 37 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12429643 High contrast optical film and devices including the same Adam D. Haag, Timothy J. Nevitt, Carl A. Stover, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Zhaohui Yang 2025-09-30
D1080576 Amplifier 2025-06-24
12299239 Display system with finger sensing Bharat R. Acharya, Joseph P. Attard, Benjamin J. Forsythe, David T. Yust, Matthew E. Sousa +15 more 2025-05-13
12147122 Backlight with collimating reflective polarizer Carl A. Stover, Matthew E. Sousa, Bharat R. Acharya, Benjamin J. Forsythe, Quinn D. Sanford 2024-11-19 $86,552,000
12130455 Multilayer partial mirror, backlight, and display system Adam D. Haag, Gilles J. Benoit, Stephen A. Johnson, Samuel A. Minno, Quinn D. Sanford +1 more 2024-10-29 $61,514,000
12078833 Absorbing, reflecting and collimating polarizer stack and backlights incorporating same Adam D. Haag, Timothy J. Nevitt, Michael F. Weber, Carl A. Stover 2024-09-03 $289,489,000
11960683 Display system with finger sensing Bharat R. Acharya, Joseph P. Attard, Benjamin J. Forsythe, David T. Yust, Matthew E. Sousa +15 more 2024-04-16 $39,805,000
11885999 Optical construction and display system Bharat R. Acharya, Joseph P. Attard, Benjamin J. Forsythe, David T. Yust, Matthew E. Sousa +15 more 2024-01-30 $25,418,000
11880104 Reflective polarizer and display system including same Carl A. Stover, Bharat R. Acharya 2024-01-23 $23,666,000
11846792 High contrast optical film and devices including the same Adam D. Haag, Timothy J. Nevitt, Carl A. Stover, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Zhaohui Yang 2023-12-19 $38,193,000
11493677 High contrast optical film having specified transmittance and reflectance of polarized light Adam D. Haag, Timothy J. Nevitt, Carl A. Stover, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Zhaohui Yang 2022-11-08 $27,717,000
11156757 High contrast optical film and devices including the same Adam D. Haag, Timothy J. Nevitt, Carl A. Stover, Andrew J. Ouderkirk, Zhaohui Yang 2021-10-26 $49,227,000
10928571 Multilayer reflective polarizer with embedded absorbing elements Adam D. Haag, Timothy J. Nevitt, Quinn D. Sanford, Carl A. Stover 2021-02-23 $41,178,000
10838127 Absorbing, reflecting and collimating polarizer stack and backlights incorporating same Adam D. Haag, Timothy J. Nevitt, Michael F. Weber, Carl A. Stover 2020-11-17 $47,687,000
10743051 Tuning efficiency and delivery of content Thomas Reed, Eric D. Hybertson, Edward P. Galt, III, Edmund Knufinke, Milash James 2020-08-11
10165337 Methods and apparatus for supporting trick play functions in devices without local storage Eric D. Hybertson, Edward P. Galt, III, Thomas Reed, Ernest Joseph Biancarelli 2018-12-25
9709700 Optical bodies including rough strippable boundary layers Carl A. Stover, Timothy J. Hebrink, Martin E. Denker, Jeffery N. Jackson, Kristopher J. Derks +9 more 2017-07-18 $23,307,000
9561629 Optical bodies including rough strippable boundary layers and asymmetric surface structures Timothy J. Hebrink, Carl A. Stover, Martin E. Denker, Jeffery N. Jackson, Kristopher J. Derks +9 more 2017-02-07 $29,265,000
9479843 Methods and apparatus for supporting trick play functions in devices without local storage Eric D. Hybertson, Edward P. Galt, III, Thomas Reed, Ernest Joseph Biancarelli 2016-10-25
9467720 Tuning efficiency and delivery of content Thomas Reed 2016-10-11
9118976 Tuning efficiency and delivery of content Thomas Reed 2015-08-25 $127,077,000
8935735 Methods and apparatus for supporting trick play functions in devices without local storage Eric D. Hybertson, Edward P. Galt, III, Thomas Reed, Ernest Joseph Biancarelli 2015-01-13 $83,045,000
8568869 Optical bodies including rough strippable boundary layers and asymmetric surface structures Timothy J. Hebrink, Carl A. Stover, Martin E. Denker, Jeffery N. Jackson, Kristopher J. Derks +9 more 2013-10-29 $22,248,000
8551285 Method of making multilayer polyurethane protective film Charlie C. Ho, Kenneth J. Halford, Michael A. Johnson, Bryan C. Feisel, Eugene C. Ostertag 2013-10-08 $11,799,000
8128779 Method of making multilayer polyurethane protective film Charlie C. Ho, Kenneth J. Halford, Michael A. Johnson, Bryan C. Feisel, Eugene C. Ostertag 2012-03-06 $35,849,000