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James Steven Bates — 8 Patents

AVAvx: 7 patents #28 of 248Top 15%
SESprague Electric: 1 patents #69 of 148Top 50%
Saco, ME: #14 of 81 inventorsTop 20%
Maine: #518 of 4,281 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
James Steven Bates has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Avx. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in April 2017. James Steven Bates ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list James Steven Bates in Saco, ME, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2013.peak 21984: 1 patents19842009: 1 patents20092012: 1 patents20122013: 2 patents20132014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9620294 Wet electrolytic capacitor containing a recessed planar anode and a restraint Lotfi Djebara, Mitchell D. Weaver 2017-04-11
9105401 Wet electrolytic capacitor containing a gelled working electrolyte Dirk H. Dreissig, Andrew P. Ritter, Zebbie Lynn Sebald, Mitchell D. Weaver, Robert Hazen Pease 2015-08-11
8687347 Planar anode for use in a wet electrolytic capacitor Robert Hazen Pease 2014-04-01
8514547 Volumetrically efficient wet electrolytic capacitor John L. Galvagni, Tomas Karnik, Richard Baker, Dirk H. Dreissig, Andrew P. Ritter 2013-08-20
8477479 Leadwire configuration for a planar anode of a wet electrolytic capacitor Robert Hazen Pease 2013-07-02
8259435 Hermetically sealed wet electrolytic capacitor William A. Millman, Ed Jackson, John L. Galvagni 2012-09-04
7511943 Wet electrolytic capacitor containing a cathode coating James A. Fife, Gang Ning, Zebbie Lynn Sebald, Robert Hazen Pease 2009-03-31 $13,691,000
4487666 Electrolytically forming a lot of valve-metal-bodies for use in capacitors 1984-12-11