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Dean M. Ball — 13 Patents

CICannon Instrument: 2 patents #1 of 9Top 15%
UNUnknown: 2 patents #12,644 of 83,584Top 20%
Abbott: 2 patents #3,463 of 5,509Top 65%
KDKidde Consumer Durables: 1 patents #4 of 19Top 25%
MIMicromeritics Instruments: 1 patents #15 of 29Top 55%
Norcross, GA: #52 of 638 inventorsTop 9%
Georgia: #2,520 of 35,610 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Dean M. Ball has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Abbott. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in February 2000. Dean M. Ball ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Dean M. Ball in Norcross, GA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2000Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1987.peak 41982: 1 patents19821983: 1 patents19831986: 1 patents19861987: 4 patents19871991: 1 patents19911997: 2 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 1 patents2000

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6030588 Zone refiner apparatus and method for purifying organic substances 2000-02-29
5987970 Rotational viscosity measurement apparatus 1999-11-23
5847268 Viscosity measuring apparatus and method 1998-12-08
5696315 Method and apparatus for measuring viscosity 1997-12-09
5616855 Method and apparatus for measuring viscosity 1997-04-01
5057436 Method and apparatus for detecting toxic gases 1991-10-15
4689304 Air/liquid detection device for blood sample analysis Robert J. Nelson 1987-08-25 $38,615,000
4672038 Optical readout for blood sample analysis Robert W. Jaekel 1987-06-09 $27,564,000
4660740 Gasification of fluids Howard R. Brandon, Jr., Joanathan D. Guest 1987-04-28
4645909 Toaster and overhead support Matthew A. Thoben, Earl Clowers, Guy Cihi, Jack L. McCurdy, Al S. Rummelsburg 1987-02-24 $4,248,000
4609369 Intravenous solution administration apparatus and method 1986-09-02
4367041 Chromatograph detection system Paul Anthony Webb, Alan H. Small 1983-01-04
4356727 Continuous volume measuring system Carole E. Brown, Graham R. Killip, James P. Olivier 1982-11-02