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William B. Crawford — 10 Patents

BIBurlington Industries: 1 patents #132 of 284Top 50%
NCNewman Machine Company: 1 patents #3 of 6Top 50%
Greensboro, NC: #141 of 1,557 inventorsTop 10%
North Carolina: #5,314 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
William B. Crawford has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Burlington Industries. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in January 2012. William B. Crawford ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list William B. Crawford in Greensboro, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1988.peak 21981: 1 patents19811984: 1 patents19841987: 1 patents19871988: 2 patents19881990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents19911998: 1 patents19982007: 1 patents20072012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D652411 Satellite antenna mounting plate Melissa E. Ross 2012-01-17
D534904 Satellite antenna mounting plate 2007-01-09
5740860 Side pocket mandrel for a measuring instrument Douglas W. Crawford, Mark Crawford 1998-04-21
5058670 Oriented valve and latch for side pocket mandrel Douglas W. Crawford, Mark Crawford 1991-10-22
4976314 T-slot mandrel and kickover tool Perry DeCuir 1990-12-11
4765403 Apparatus for placing and removing well flow control devices Douglas W. Crawford, Robert W. Dinning 1988-08-23
4744415 Kickover tool for placing and removing well flow control devices Douglass W. Crawford, Mark Crawford 1988-05-17
4715441 Side pocket mandrel Douglass W. Crawford, Mark Crawford 1987-12-29
4476906 Yielding pressure bar for wood planing machines Brian D. Barber 1984-10-16
4245576 Pleating machine Anthony T. Solomon 1981-01-20 $4,001,000