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Michael Kroner — 14 Patents

Basf Se: 6 patents #2,778 of 13,826Top 25%
WPWeidmüller Interface Gmbh & Co. Kg And Ph: 6 patents #42 of 362Top 15%
IBM: 2 patents #32,909 of 70,183Top 50%
Oerlinghausen, DE: #2 of 42 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Michael Kroner has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Basf Se. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in May 2024. Michael Kroner ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Michael Kroner in Oerlinghausen, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1999.peak 41980: 1 patents19801986: 1 patents19861999: 4 patents19992000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012015: 1 patents20152017: 1 patents20172018: 2 patents20182021: 1 patents20212024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11991861 Controller and modular control system of an industrial automation system Ingo GURLT, Tobias Klug, Michael Schnatwinkel, Ralf Schumacher, Klaus Püschner +1 more 2024-05-21
10901387 Control system for an industrial automation facility and method for programming and operating such a control system Immo Birnbaum, Sebastian Brinkmann, Michael Brockmeyer, Felix Harring, Stefan Herbrechtsmeier +1 more 2021-01-26
10007257 Input/output system for an industrial automation system and method for providing an image of an input/output system 2018-06-26
10007633 Field bus coupler for connecting input/output modules to a field bus, and method of operation for a field bus coupler Bjoern Griese 2018-06-26
9660796 Method for detecting in a receiver a transmitter local time 2017-05-23
8961201 Mounting rail bus system Bjoern Griese, Stephan Lange, Marc Boecker, Markus Schnueckel, Gorm ROSE 2015-02-24
6275839 Method and system for immediate exponent normalization in a fast floating point adder Gunter Gerwig, Klaus J. Getzlaff 2001-08-14 $21,171,000
6114435 Preparation of aqueous solutions of polymers containing vinylamine units, which solutions have a long shelf life, and their use Claudia Nilz, Manfred Winter, Andreas Stange, Rudolf Schuhmacher 2000-09-05 $204,000
5999960 Block-normalization in multiply-add floating point sequence without wait cycles Gunter Gerwig 1999-12-07 $33,125,000
5951828 Continuous distillation of thermolabile monomers Manfred Winter, Jacques Dupuis 1999-09-14
5935896 Catalyst supports and catalysts for dehydrocyanation reactions and processes for producing them Jacques Dupuis, Peter Trubenbach, Ekkehard Schwab 1999-08-10
5863879 Dye transfer inhibitors for detergents Michael Zirnstein, Wolfgang Trieselt, Knut Oppenlander, Claudia Nilz, Wolfgang H. H. Gunther 1999-01-26
4623699 Preparation of linear, basic polymer powders Fritz Brunnmueller, Heinrich Hartmann, Friedrich Linhart, Klaus Pfitzner 1986-11-18
4218393 Manufacture of vinyl-lactonitrile 1980-08-19