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Wei Fan — 6 Patents

3M: 3 patents #4,239 of 11,543Top 40%
UMUniversity Of Massachusetts: 2 patents #404 of 1,810Top 25%
UMUniversity of Minnesota: 1 patents #1,216 of 2,951Top 45%
UDUniversity Of Delaware: 1 patents #226 of 660Top 35%
UAUniversity Of Massachusetts Amherst: 1 patents #4 of 33Top 15%
Cottage Grove, MN: #93 of 362 inventorsTop 30%
Minnesota: #11,902 of 52,454 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Wei Fan has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at 3M. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in November 2022. Wei Fan ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Wei Fan in Cottage Grove, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2000.peak 21999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents20002015: 1 patents20152020: 1 patents20202022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11498062 Phosphorus-containing solid catalysts and reactions catalyzed thereby, including synthesis of p-xylene Hong-Je Cho, Michael Tsapatsis, Paul J. Dauenhauer, Limin Ren, Raul Lobo 2022-11-15
10793442 Exfoliation of zeolites in functionalized polymers Horst Winter, Vijesh Anant Tanna, Sanket Sabnis 2020-10-06
9108190 Rapid synthesis of beta zeolites Chun-Chih Chang, Paul J. DORNATH, Zhuopeng Wang 2015-08-18
6015838 Aqueous film-forming foam compositions Richard M. Stern 2000-01-18 $31,964,000
6013795 Alpha-branched fluoroalkylcarbonyl fluorides and their derivatives Anthony P. Manzara, Richard M. Stern, George G. I. Moore 2000-01-11 $26,243,000
5998521 Aqueous fluoropolymer compositions and method of preparing the same Anthony P. Manzara 1999-12-07 $17,777,000