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Robert B. Summers — 6 Patents

BOBOE: 5 patents #3,511 of 12,373Top 30%
OMOmrom: 1 patents #1 of 20Top 5%
Indianapolis, IN: #1,019 of 5,011 inventorsTop 25%
Indiana: #6,140 of 33,936 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Robert B. Summers has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at BOE. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in November 1992. Robert B. Summers ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Robert B. Summers in Indianapolis, IN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 1992Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1991.peak 31989: 1 patents19891991: 3 patents19911992: 2 patents1992

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5160979 Test piece coloration comparative decision unit Hiroyuki Ota, Takao Terada, Bernd G. Herpichboehm, George H. Sierra, Thomas M. Watlington 1992-11-03
5160980 Test piece coloration comparative decision unit Bernd G. Herpichboehm, George H. Sierra, Thomas M. Watlington 1992-11-03
D321488 Colorimeter George H. Sierra 1991-11-12
D318245 Colorimeter George H. Sierra, James D. Morrow 1991-07-16
5011290 Test sample color comparison device Takao Terada, Hiroyuki Ota, Shigeru Makita, Bernd G. Herpichboehm, George H. Sierra +1 more 1991-04-30
4871258 Color test meter Bernd G. Herpichboehm, George H. Sierra, Thomas M. Watlington 1989-10-03