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Frederick W. Nelson — 38 Patents

JDJohn Deere: 31 patents #56 of 5,518Top 2%
NTNavcom Technology: 4 patents #9 of 34Top 30%
3M: 2 patents #5,350 of 11,543Top 50%
Waukee, IA: #4 of 72 inventorsTop 6%
Iowa: #189 of 15,303 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
Frederick W. Nelson has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at John Deere. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in November 2022. Frederick W. Nelson ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Frederick W. Nelson in Waukee, IA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2006.peak 51980: 2 patents19801990: 1 patents1997: 1 patents1998: 2 patents19982001: 1 patents2003: 2 patents2004: 2 patents20042005: 2 patents2006: 5 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 1 patents2010: 3 patents20102011: 1 patents2014: 1 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 3 patents2019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11498608 Hydraulic bi-directional flow switches 2022-11-15 $85,893,000
10912251 Method for treating plants with respect to estimated root zones Terence D. Pickett, Richard J. Connell, Larry L. Hendrickson, Brandon M. McDonald, Noel W. Anderson 2021-02-09 $92,585,000
10830751 Method for treating plants with respect to estimated root zones Terence D. Pickett, Richard J. Connell, Larry L. Hendrickson, Brandon M. McDonald, Noel W. Anderson 2020-11-10 $20,514,000
10421478 Hydraulic bi-directional flow switches 2019-09-24 $35,760,000
9834248 Vehicle guidance system with a stepper motor Terence D. Pickett 2017-12-05 $35,653,000
9811087 Method for controlling a vehicle and a vehicle guidance system Timothy A. Wilcox, Peter W. Kasap 2017-11-07 $13,635,000
9676557 Elevator paddle design to optimize sample bypass collection Broughton C. Boydell 2017-06-13 $53,868,000
9499034 Vehicle canopy Abhijeet Hingne, Donald Lee Goodrich 2016-11-22 $101,336,000
9458600 Method for controlling an implement associated with a vehicle Timothy A. Wilcox, Peter W. Kasap, Darin E. Bartholomew 2016-10-04 $17,340,000
9374939 System and method for steering of an implement on sloped ground Terence D. Pickett, Wade Steven Mitchell 2016-06-28 $23,037,000
8626406 Method and system for transferring material between vehicles Tyler D. Schleicher, Dale O Pellatz, Matthew Potter, Monte E Miller, Brandon G. Leiran 2014-01-07 $11,943,000
7962266 Method, controller and vehicle for performing agricultural operations on a field with parallel arranged rows Broughton C. Boydell, Robert L. Mayfield 2011-06-14 $138,550,000
7761334 Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product Terence D. Pickett, Stephen Michael Faivre, Andy Dwayne Beck, Georg Larscheid, Mark Sommer +1 more 2010-07-20 $74,567,000
7756719 Method and system for tracing the identity of an agricultural product using data handoff Andy Dwayne Beck, Terence D. Pickett, Thomas Wagner 2010-07-13 $21,496,000
7716905 Sensing assembly for detection of one or more plants Timothy A. Wilcox 2010-05-18 $11,375,000
7520337 Method and system for shaping furrows in soil Andrew Smart 2009-04-21 $58,241,000
7427950 Method for increasing the reliability of position information when transitioning from a regional, wide-area, or global carrier-phase differential navigation (WADGPS) to a local real-time kinematic (RTK) navigation system Daniel J. Eslinger, Jing Sun, Richard Sharpe, Terence D. Pickett, Ronald R. Hatch 2008-09-23
7369924 System and method for providing guidance towards a far-point position for a vehicle implementing a satellite-based guidance system Shufeng Han, Terence D. Pickett, John Franklin Reid 2008-05-06 $275,752,000
7349779 Automatic steering system 2008-03-25 $119,286,000
7231295 System and method for creating accurate topographical maps using low-drift DGPS Terence D. Pickett, Larry L. Hendrickson 2007-06-12 $164,639,000
7119741 Method for combined use of a local RTK system and a regional, wide-area, or global carrier-phase positioning system Richard Sharpe, Terence D. Pickett, Ronald R. Hatch, Yunchun Yang 2006-10-10
7117417 Method for generating clock corrections for a wide-area or global differential GPS system Richard Sharpe, Ronald R. Hatch 2006-10-03
7085777 Method and system for tracing the identity of an agricultural product Andy Dwayne Beck, Terence D. Pickett, Thomas Wagner 2006-08-01 $93,787,000
7071870 Method for combined use of local positioning system and a global positioning system Richard Sharpe, Terence D. Pickett, Ronald R. Hatch, Yunchun Yang 2006-07-04
7062513 Method and system for tracing the identity of an agricultural product using data handoff Andy Dwayne Beck, Terence D. Pickett, Thomas Wagner 2006-06-13 $19,476,000