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Rainer Schafer — 14 Patents

JDJohn Deere: 7 patents #676 of 5,518Top 15%
BOBOE: 3 patents #4,818 of 12,373Top 40%
AKAlfred Kärcher Gmbh & Co. Kg: 1 patents #95 of 242Top 40%
IGIcoma Packtechnik Gmbh: 1 patents #3 of 7Top 45%
RGRoche Diagnostics Gmbh: 1 patents #457 of 851Top 55%
Sprockhövel, DE: #4 of 105 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Rainer Schafer has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at John Deere. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in October 2014. Rainer Schafer ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Rainer Schafer in Sprockhövel, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1989.peak 21985: 1 patents19851989: 2 patents19891990: 1 patents19901995: 1 patents19952001: 2 patents20012004: 1 patents20042007: 2 patents20072009: 2 patents20092012: 1 patents20122014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8856998 Mobile floor cleaning machine Frank Nonnenmann 2014-10-14
8276355 Harvesting machine with a transport unit for the installation and removal of a crop processing unit Manfred Engel, Christoph Spallek 2012-10-02 $19,351,000
7555882 Drive for a crop picking head Steffen Clauss, Stefan Bohrer, Jürgen Hofer, Peter Pirro 2009-07-07 $27,751,000
7540136 Field chopper and press rolls 2009-06-02 $21,257,000
7311448 Bearing arrangement for a harvesting machine Manfred Engel, Joseph Albert Teijido, Claus-Josef Vogelgesang, Fritz Lauer, Wolfram Elsner +1 more 2007-12-25
7261632 Self-propelled harvesting machine Peter Pirro, Jürgen Hofer, Stefan Bohrer, Steffen Clauss 2007-08-28 $58,933,000
6690285 Agricultural implement component rotation alarm Eberhard Holtkotte, Karl Josef Willeke, Larry N. Smith, Stanley J. Johnson, James W. Klimes +5 more 2004-02-10 $5,516,000
6282875 Agricultural vehicle and implement with wheels Eberhard Holtkotte, Claus-Joseph Vogelgesang, Richard Wubbels 2001-09-04 $18,453,000
6246785 Automated, microscope-assisted examination process of tissue or bodily fluid samples Bela Molnar, Winfried Albert 2001-06-12
5420042 Method for the analytical determination of the concentration of a component of a medical sample Christoph Berding, Fridl Lang, Wilheim Kleider, Peter Wolf 1995-05-30
4914895 Device for filling and closing sacks, in particular paper side folding sacks Gustav Kuckhermann, Klaus Tolle, Eduard Turnwald, Peter Zink, Josef Hodapp 1990-04-10
4820644 Process for the preparation of an immune-reactive porous carrier material Helmut Jering 1989-04-11
4803171 Reagent paper for immunologically analysis, a process for the preparation thereof and the use thereof Manfred Baier, Klaus P. Kaspar, Ulrich Trager, Siegfried Notzel 1989-02-07
4528007 Element for separating gaseous isotopes into at least two fractions and with a separating basket consisting of several separating elements Werner Grossstuck 1985-07-09