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Towmotor
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Towmotor
— 96 Patents
Rank
(All Time):
#7,131
of
105,732
Top 7%
69
inventors
96
Patents All Time
Patents per Year
Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1986
Bar chart with a peak of 21 patents in 1985.
peak 21
1980: 14 patents
1980
1981: 16 patents
1981
1982: 20 patents
1982
1983: 9 patents
1983
1984: 13 patents
1984
1985: 21 patents
1985
1986: 3 patents
1986
Top Inventors at Towmotor
All Time
Showing
1–50
of
69
inventors
Rank
Name
Patents
1
Grant C. Melocik
19
2
William Pickering
11
3
John E. Wible
9
#4
Jerry L. Reeves
6
#4
Richard J. Johannson
6
#4
Wayne T. Wiblin
6
#7
Edward V. Leskovec
5
#8
Harold V. Hildebrecht
4
#8
James G. Blaha
4
#10
Charles R. Chelin
3
#10
David T. Ping
3
#10
Richard A. Schwehr
3
#10
William I. Callaghan
3
#14
James H. Povejsil
2
#14
John E. Macnab
2
#14
Kjell Sorlie
2
#14
Llewellyn L. Walter
2
#14
Milford D. McVeen
2
#14
Norman F. Jirousek
2
#14
Richard J. Malecha
2
#14
Robert D. Higgins
2
#14
Vaikai K. Brown
2
#14
William M. Shipitalo
2
#24
Thorolf R. Bjorksten
1
#24
Lawrence A. Liljequist
1
#24
Edward V. Leskoverc
1
#24
Alan T. Fredrick
1
#24
Charles P. Ehinger
1
#24
William D. Gubser
1
#24
Albert L. Woody
1
#24
Anthony Natale
1
#24
Bradley A. Rice
1
#24
Charles J. Sabec
1
#24
Daniel L. Ervin
1
#24
David L. Morrow
1
#24
Dennis Dawson
1
#24
Douglas L. Uhler
1
#24
Edwin Reeve
1
#24
Frank S. Buchwald
1
#24
Gary F. Burkholder
1
#24
Gwenne A. E. Henricks
1
#24
Harold L. Reinsma
1
#24
James W. Erker
1
#24
James A. Kulhanek
1
#24
Jan Mikkelsen
1
#24
James W. Russey
1
#24
Jay B. Stotts
1
#24
Jesse L. Field, Jr.
1
#24
John C. Paine
1
#24
Joseph Vero
1
1
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