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Thomas J. Scanlan — 10 Patents

3M: 9 patents #1,781 of 11,543Top 20%
Woodbury, MN: #391 of 1,562 inventorsTop 30%
Minnesota: #7,600 of 52,454 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Thomas J. Scanlan has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in August 2017. Thomas J. Scanlan ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Thomas J. Scanlan in Woodbury, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1990.peak 11990: 1 patents19901992: 1 patents19921995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents20022017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9718592 Collapsible reusable carrier Mary Lou Jothen 2017-08-01
6475609 Color shifting film glitter Leland R. Whitney, Andrew J. Ouderkirk 2002-11-05 $20,473,000
6120026 Game with privacy material Leland R. Whitney, Myron K. Jordan, Gregory D. Allen 2000-09-19 $16,737,000
5974757 Privacy enclosure Leland R. Whitney, Charles A. Marttila, Ronald W. Gerdes, David W. Schilling, Joseph G. Mandell +1 more 1999-11-02 $15,356,000
5813180 Privacy enclosure Leland R. Whitney, Charles A. Marttila, Ronald W. Gerdes, David W. Schilling, Joseph G. Mandell +1 more 1998-09-29 $18,493,000
5658656 Use of materials comprising microbubbles as acoustical barriers Leland R. Whitney, Michael W. Dolezal, Ronald W. Gerdes, Gary N. Harvieux, Charles A. Marttila +1 more 1997-08-19 $9,533,000
5504281 Perforated acoustical attenuators Leland R. Whitney, Charles A. Marttila, Joseph G. Mandell 1996-04-02 $11,764,000
5418339 Pneumatic tool having noise reducing muffling structure Gloria D. Bowen, Zubin P. Daruwala, David W. Hegdahl, Jeffrey W. McCutcheon 1995-05-23 $5,921,000
5104632 Method of making thin silica flakes David K. Douden 1992-04-14 $10,378,000
4971697 Thin silica flakes and method of making David K. Douden 1990-11-20 $6,763,000