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Coleco Industries
— 60 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#10,880
of
105,732
Top 15%
46
inventors
60
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1989
Bar chart with a peak of 11 patents in 1987.
peak 11
1980: 3 patents
1980
1981: 4 patents
1981
1982: 1 patents
1982
1983: 5 patents
1983
1984: 5 patents
1984
1985: 6 patents
1985
1986: 10 patents
1986
1987: 11 patents
1987
1988: 8 patents
1988
1989: 7 patents
1989
Top Inventors at Coleco Industries
All Time
Showing
1–46
of
46
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Eric Bromley
11
2
Francis R. Amici
9
3
Pietro Piazza
8
#4
Hans S. Berger
7
#5
Richard I. Farrington
6
#6
Brian Fontaine
5
#6
John P. McNett
5
#6
Paul Santarsiero
5
#9
Domenic G. Mercurio
4
#9
Frank Mercurio
4
#11
Norbert L. Reiner
3
#11
Richard Droller
3
#11
Ronald S. Hemmann
3
#11
William Stanley Berliner
3
#15
Bruce J. Benedetto
2
#15
Craig Dubois
2
#15
Dominic Mercurio
2
#15
Howard Sands
2
#15
John Kearney
2
#15
Michael J. Clarke
2
#15
Robert A. Schenck
2
#15
Stephen M. Sledesky
2
#15
William J. Rose
2
#24
Michael S. Barishman
1
#24
F. Robert Amici
1
#24
Robert Delli Bovi
1
#24
Robert D. Bovi
1
#24
Alfred C. Mecklenburg
1
#24
Benjamin L. Goldberg
1
#24
Charles Schaub
1
#24
Donald Harrison Stephens
1
#24
George Edward L. Schaefer, Jr.
1
#24
James H. Nugent
1
#24
Jeffrey W. Lawrence
1
#24
John C. Robertson
1
#24
Jon Rosenfeld
1
#24
Keith R. Wruck
1
#24
Lester H. Olinsky
1
#24
Mark B. Johnson-Williams
1
#24
Mark L. Yoseloff
1
#24
Richard H. Ratkiewich
1
#24
Susan A. Marsh
1
#24
Thomas Helmer
1
#24
Walter Koda
1
#24
Georg W. Tscherner
1
#24
Beverly D. Sustare
1
Most Valuable Patents
Patent
Est. Value
Year
Electronic sports-action game with improved game-object simulation
$14M
1983
Electronic game providing formation changes and method
$11M
1983
Electronic baseball game method and apparatus
$7M
1983
Method of making multicolored unitary thermoformed article
$5M
1984
Apparatus for generating rate signals
$5M
1984
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