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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Patrick S. McElhinney — 24 Patents

ASAltria Client Services: 23 patents #61 of 418Top 15%
PUPhilip Morris Usa: 1 patents #601 of 607Top 100%
Swift Creek Farms, VA: #7 of 46 inventorsTop 20%
Virginia: #980 of 34,511 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Patrick S. McElhinney has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Altria Client Services. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in July 2025. Patrick S. McElhinney ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Patrick S. McElhinney in Swift Creek Farms, VA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2023.peak 62001: 1 patents20012018: 1 patents20182020: 2 patents20202021: 2 patents20212022: 5 patents20222023: 6 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12369230 Heater of an electronic vaping device Christopher S. Tucker, Charles Dendy, Nam Tran, David Alvarez 2025-07-22
12286257 Cut and seal method and apparatus Jarrod W. Chalkley, James D. Evans, Thien Nguyen 2025-04-29
12269627 Gas-based material compression and portioning Dwight D. Williams, James D. Evans, Jarrod W. Chalkley 2025-04-08
12195221 Cleaner assemblies, apparatuses including a cleaner assembly, methods of making the same, and/or methods of operating the same Jarrod W. Chalkley, Robert V. Powell, Jr., Christopher R. NEWCOMB, Jeremy J. Straight, Isaac J. McGill +1 more 2025-01-14
12035745 Adhesive free tobacco product tip assembly Jeffrey A. Swepston, Marc D. Belcastro, Christopher L. Simpson, John D. Thomson 2024-07-16 $43,159,000
11897649 Cut and seal method and apparatus Jarrod W. Chalkley, James D. Evans, Thien Nguyen 2024-02-13 $18,385,000
11891204 Cleaner assemblies, apparatuses including a cleaner assembly, methods of making the same, and/or methods of operating the same Jarrod W. Chalkley, Robert V. Powell, Jr., Christopher R. NEWCOMB, Jeremy J. Straight, Isaac J. McGill +1 more 2024-02-06 $38,426,000
11832357 Method of making a heater of an electronic vaping device Christopher S. Tucker, Charles Dendy, Nam Tran, David Alvarez 2023-11-28 $40,090,000
11800889 Tongue with pre-folding section Dwight D. Williams 2023-10-31 $77,335,000
11753190 Gas-based material compression and portioning Dwight D. Williams, James D. Evans, Jarrod W. Chalkley 2023-09-12 $53,760,000
11691309 Material compression and portioning Dwight D. Williams, James D. Evans, Jarrod W. Chalkley, Christopher R. NEWCOMB, Robert V. Powell, Jr. 2023-07-04
11662241 Doser assemblies, apparatuses including a doser assembly, methods of making the same, and/or methods of operating the same Jarrod W. Chalkley, Robert V. Powell, Jr., Christopher R. NEWCOMB, Jeremy J. Straight, Isaac J. McGill +1 more 2023-05-30 $113,897,000
11591128 Cut and seal method and apparatus Jarrod W. Chalkley, James D. Evans, Thien Nguyen 2023-02-28 $78,772,000
11490651 Tongue and tongue assembly with injection port for rod forming apparatus, rod forming apparatus with tongue assembly and method of installing tongue assembly on rod forming apparatus Dwight D. Williams 2022-11-08 $61,446,000
11479380 Stamp application 2022-10-25 $81,089,000
11388783 Method of making a heater of an electronic vaping device Christopher S. Tucker, Charles Dendy, Nam Tran, David Alvarez 2022-07-12 $48,250,000
11254460 Cut and seal method and apparatus Jarrod W. Chalkley, James D. Evans, Thien Nguyen 2022-02-22 $47,636,000
11213967 Material compression and portioning Dwight D. Williams, James D. Evans, Jarrod W. Chalkley, Christopher R. NEWCOMB, Robert V. Powell, Jr. 2022-01-04 $45,675,000
11192668 Gas-based material compression and portioning Dwight D. Williams, James D. Evans, Jarrod W. Chalkley 2021-12-07 $78,585,000
11027873 Stamp application 2021-06-08 $117,436,000
10827780 Tobacco product tip Jeffrey A. Swepston, Marc D. Belcastro, Christopher L. Simpson, John D. Thomson 2020-11-10 $83,712,000
10575560 Method of making a heater of an electronic vaping device Christopher S. Tucker, Charles Dendy, Nam Tran, David Alvarez 2020-03-03 $46,825,000
10064428 Adhesive free tobacco product tip assembly Jeffrey A. Swepston, Marc D. Belcastro, Christopher L. Simpson, John D. Thomson 2018-09-04 $119,334,000
6173551 Ink jet coder system and method Richard E. Bowman, Jr., Robert C. Kucera, Jr., Sylvia L. Scaife, Stephen D. Brown 2001-01-16 $1,224,822,000