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William Couch — 3 Patents

CRCree: 2 patents #354 of 639Top 60%
ILIdeal Industries Lighting: 1 patents #128 of 178Top 75%
Wake Forest, NC: #215 of 596 inventorsTop 40%
North Carolina: #14,708 of 45,564 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,328,092 of 4,157,543Top 35%
3 Patents All Time
William Couch has been granted 3 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cree. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in December 2020. William Couch ranks #1,328,092 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 31.9%). Patent records list William Couch in Wake Forest, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2016.peak 12016: 1 patents20162019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–3 of 3 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10868412 Cord grip with liquid drain Ashok K. Rana, Gerry Thornton, Bradley J. Thomas, Benjamin Beck, Scott Fisher 2020-12-15
10320168 Cord grip with liquid drain Ashok K. Rana, Gerry Thornton, Bradley J. Thomas, Benjamin Beck, Scott Fisher 2019-06-11 $15,781,000
9464778 Lighting device utilizing a double fresnel lens Zongjie Yuan, Kurt S. Wilcox, Benjamin Beck, Lisa Barglind, Steven Patkus 2016-10-11 $3,821,000