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William E. Donovan — 1 Patent

Caterpillar: 1 patents #4,457 of 8,398Top 55%
Newton, NC: #48 of 88 inventorsTop 55%
North Carolina: #26,774 of 45,564 inventorsTop 60%
Overall (All Time): #2,406,284 of 4,157,543Top 60%
1 Patents All Time
William E. Donovan has been granted 1 US patent while listed as an inventor at Caterpillar. All of these patents were granted in 2013. William E. Donovan ranks #2,406,284 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 57.9%). Patent records list William E. Donovan in Newton, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–1 of 1 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8517086 Composite heat exchanger end structure Sunil I. Mathew, Dan J. Becker, Thomas J. Grabenstetter, Daniel A. Piterski, Stephen M. Bertrand 2013-08-27 $29,030,000