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Fasteners For Retail
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Fasteners For Retail
— 261 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#2,920
of
105,732
Top 3%
64
inventors
261
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025
Bar chart with a peak of 29 patents in 2023.
peak 29
1996: 1 patents
1996
1997: 4 patents
1998: 2 patents
1999: 4 patents
1999
2000: 11 patents
2001: 4 patents
2002: 8 patents
2002
2003: 3 patents
2004: 6 patents
2005: 5 patents
2005
2006: 3 patents
2007: 3 patents
2008: 4 patents
2008
2009: 3 patents
2010: 7 patents
2011: 5 patents
2011
2012: 9 patents
2013: 8 patents
2014: 8 patents
2014
2015: 6 patents
2016: 13 patents
2017: 11 patents
2017
2018: 4 patents
2019: 6 patents
2020: 12 patents
2020
2021: 13 patents
2022: 15 patents
2023: 29 patents
2023
2024: 26 patents
2025: 24 patents
2025
Top Inventors at Fasteners For Retail
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
64
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Shane Obitts
51
2
Thomas O. Nagel
41
3
Daniel J. Kump
40
#4
Brent O. Ewing
37
#5
Paul A. Mueller
34
#5
William H. Walker
34
#7
Gregory M. Bird
28
#8
Chan Chor Man
26
#9
Stephen D. Wamsley
23
#10
Joseph P. Kosir
21
#11
Keith C. Eden
20
#12
Gerald Matthew Szpak
18
#13
Thaddeus Brej
11
#14
James J. Kopco
9
#14
Michael Eric Liedtke
9
#16
Billy Mertz
8
#16
Jamie A. Smedley
8
#18
James Bacnik
7
#18
James J. Rataiczak, III
7
#18
John Caterinacci
7
#18
Robert Gray
7
#22
Gregory A. Mackey, II
6
#22
Kelly Ann Pickett
6
#22
Matthew Grubbs
6
#25
Gabriel Garduno
5
#25
Heather Watson
5
#25
Matt Grubbs
5
#28
Richard A. Williams
4
#29
Curtis Taylor
3
#29
William J. Mertz
3
#29
Yun Hua
3
#32
Anthony J. Lammers
2
#32
Daniel Edward Kustra
2
#32
David Schultz
2
#32
Francesc Xavier Badia Rotger
2
#32
Gerald A. Conway
2
#32
Jeffrey A. Comstock
2
#32
Kenneth G. Rhineberger
2
#32
Norman L. Siegel
2
#32
Raymond J. Fritz
2
#32
Wallace D. Tiller, Jr.
2
#42
George J. Wasilko
1
#42
Alex Souhala
1
#42
Ashok Kumara Dyavarasegowda
1
#42
Christopher E. Bremenour
1
#42
Christopher Harrell
1
#42
Christopher M. Paterson
1
#42
David E. Burbrink
1
#42
David B. Schott
1
#42
Dean Mook
1
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