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David Griffith — 12 Patents

Caterpillar: 3 patents #2,186 of 8,398Top 30%
VGVersata Development Group: 2 patents #62 of 106Top 60%
Apple: 2 patents #9,294 of 18,612Top 50%
Apex, NC: #179 of 1,394 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #4,293 of 45,564 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
David Griffith has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Caterpillar. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in February 2022. David Griffith ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list David Griffith in Apex, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2012.peak 21997: 1 patents19972000: 1 patents20002012: 2 patents20122014: 1 patents20142016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11253956 Structure having stress protected groove weld and structural members forming the same Michael H. Noble, William Jay Ulrich, IV, Christopher Lu, Ling Pan, Huijun Wang +5 more 2022-02-22 $139,279,000
10981253 Structure having stress protected groove weld and structural members forming the same Michael H. Noble, William Jay Ulrich, IV, April J. Lu, Ling Pan, Huijun Wang +5 more 2021-04-20 $62,129,000
10861098 Actuary-manipulable rating model system 2020-12-08
10688600 Structure having stress protected groove weld and structural members forming the same Michael H. Noble, William Jay Ulrich, IV, Christopher Lu, Ling Pan, Huijun Wang +5 more 2020-06-23 $60,358,000
10352132 Automatic downhole jetting system 2019-07-16
9977537 Hybrid force sensitive touch devices Anders L. Mölne 2018-05-22 $72,572,000
9329719 Hybrid force sensitive touch devices Anders L. Mölne 2016-05-03 $50,088,000
8780543 Integrated feature for friction-less movement of force sensitive touch screen Anders L. Mölne, Mark Lackey, Curtiss Noble 2014-07-15
8270148 Suspension for a pressure sensitive touch display or panel Gary Smith, Mark Lackey, Anders L. Mölne 2012-09-18
8224672 Actuary-manipulable rating model and system 2012-07-17
6092390 Portable, automatic, oil recovery system 2000-07-25
5634716 Portable batch blending system Thomas L. Westall, Thomas Nowak, Earl Maltbie, Curtis L. Crandall 1997-06-03