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Mark Sommer — 7 Patents

JDJohn Deere: 7 patents #676 of 5,518Top 15%
East Moline, IL: #14 of 91 inventorsTop 20%
Illinois: #13,121 of 84,256 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Mark Sommer has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at John Deere. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in October 2012. Mark Sommer ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Mark Sommer in East Moline, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2004.peak 22003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents20042005: 1 patents20052009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
RE43772 Seed tube for an agricultural seeding machine Nathan A. Mariman, James R. Peterson, Donald K. Landphair, William G. Bultinck 2012-10-30
7761334 Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product Terence D. Pickett, Frederick W. Nelson, Stephen Michael Faivre, Andy Dwayne Beck, Georg Larscheid +1 more 2010-07-20 $74,567,000
7472660 Seed tube for an agricultural seeding machine Nathan A. Mariman, James R. Peterson, Donald K. Landphair, William G. Bultinck 2009-01-06 $40,950,000
6963881 Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product Terence D. Pickett, Frederick W. Nelson, Stephen Michael Faivre, Andy Dwayne Beck, Georg Larscheid +1 more 2005-11-08 $74,823,000
6820009 System and method for electronic collection of data on an agricultural input 2004-11-16 $47,262,000
6691135 Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product Terence D. Pickett, Frederick W. Nelson, Stephen Michael Faivre, Andy Dwayne Beck, Thomas Wagner +1 more 2004-02-10 $5,516,000
6671698 Method and system for automated tracing of an agricultural product Terence D. Pickett, Frederick W. Nelson, Stephen Michael Faivre, Andy Dwayne Beck, Georg Larscheid +1 more 2003-12-30 $15,019,000