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Gregory E. McDonald — 23 Patents

CRCryovac: 15 patents #14 of 481Top 3%
WCW.R. Grace & Co.-Conn.: 7 patents #98 of 1,045Top 10%
FCFurukawa Mfg. Co.: 3 patents #4 of 40Top 10%
S(Sealed Air Corporation (Us): 1 patents #177 of 291Top 65%
Simpsonville, SC: #62 of 1,013 inventorsTop 7%
South Carolina: #489 of 15,501 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Gregory E. McDonald has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cryovac. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in May 2024. Gregory E. McDonald ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Gregory E. McDonald in Simpsonville, SC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1996.peak 21994: 1 patents19941995: 1 patents1996: 2 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 2 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents2002: 1 patents20022009: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122021: 1 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11994237 Apparatus and method for vacuumizing and sealing a package Gregory H. Grossman, Joe A. Price, Rod Hodgson, John L. King, Jr., Shuichi Nakamoto +4 more 2024-05-28
11725748 Apparatus and method for vacuumizing and sealing a package Gregory H. Grossman, Joe A. Price, Rod Hodgson, John L. King, Jr., Shuichi Nakamoto +4 more 2023-08-15
11661224 Apparatus for heat shrinking a package and method for heat shrinking a package Peter Thurig, Stefan Landolt 2023-05-30
11494890 Image-data-based classification of vacuum seal packages Siddarth Sreeram, Kalpit Shailesh Mehta, James Mize, Richard K. Watson 2022-11-08
11254457 Method of positioning and sealing a bag in a vacuum chamber, bag positioning apparatus, and method of manufacturing a patch bag Jeffrey R. Iocco, Julian L. Pruitt, Max C. Painter 2022-02-22
10941879 Apparatus and method for vacuumizing and sealing a package Gregory H. Grossman, Joe A. Price, Rod Hodgson, John L. King, Jr., Shuichi Nakamoto +4 more 2021-03-09
8186896 Apparatus and method for printing and dispensing a web Alexandre J. Frost, Jason G. Verrett, H. Dean Conner, Julian L. Pruitt 2012-05-29
8080212 Method and apparatus for high speed activation of oxygen scavenging compositions Drew V. Speer, Paul Spence, Timothy S. Dennison, Gregory H. Grossman, Csaba Kiss +2 more 2011-12-20
7807111 Method and apparatus for high speed activation of oxygen scavenging compositions Drew V. Speer, Paul Spence, Timothy S. Dennison, Gregory H. Grossman, Csaba Kiss +2 more 2010-10-05
7607467 Web dispenser Timothy S. Dennison, Glenn W. Killinger, Jeffrey L. Walker 2009-10-27
6499274 Method for high speed loading, vacuumizing and sealing of a bagged article Jeffrey L. Walker, Glenn W. Killinger, Andrew W. Moehlenbrock 2002-12-31
6282869 Method of cutting and sealing film Kyle B. Bullock, Robert D. All, Howard Dean Connor, David Grams, Shawn Harris +7 more 2001-09-04
6282871 Method and apparatus for opening and transporting bags Glenn W. Killinger, Charles C. Zende 2001-09-04
6148587 Bag with an access hole in one panel Andrew W. Moehlenbrock, John Carson 2000-11-21
5987854 Method and apparatus for opening and transporting bags Glenn W. Killinger, Charles C. Zende 1999-11-23
5946888 Method and apparatus for automatic packaging of cheese J. Danny Foster, Jeff Walker 1999-09-07
5826405 Method and apparatus for opening taped bags Glenn W. Killinger, Charles C. Zende 1998-10-27 $4,258,000
5810706 bag with an access hole in one panel Andrew W. Moehlenbrock, John Carson 1998-09-22 $3,242,000
5692360 System and method for packaging products Glenn W. Killinger, John Foster, Cuong Manh Ta, Charles C. Zende, Andrew W. Moehlenbrock 1997-12-02 $14,376,000
5551215 Bag and method of opening a bag with partial offset lip Andrew W. Moehlenbrock, John Foster 1996-09-03 $16,050,000
5484375 Method & apparatus for sealing fitment tubes into pouches Joseph E. Owensby 1996-01-16 $7,100,000
5435114 Automated packaging machine and packaging method Andrew W. Moehlenbrock, Howard Dean Conner, Joseph E. Owensby, Frederick A. Dobbins, Thomas H. Bagwell 1995-07-25 $16,051,000
5324233 Method and apparatus for sealing fitment tubes into pouches Joseph E. Owensby 1994-06-28 $9,351,000