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Shane Hansen — 9 Patents

JDJohn Deere: 8 patents #582 of 5,518Top 15%
Smithfield, UT: #14 of 69 inventorsTop 25%
Utah: #2,292 of 19,430 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Shane Hansen has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at John Deere. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in June 2023. Shane Hansen ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Shane Hansen in Smithfield, UT, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2006.peak 32005: 2 patents20052006: 3 patents20062007: 2 patents20072009: 1 patents20092023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11680000 Automated manifold for removing digestate from a lagoon digester David DeWaard 2023-06-20
7505848 Path planner and method for planning a contour path of a vehicle Nicholas Simon Flann, Sarah Ann Gray 2009-03-17 $22,809,000
7228214 Path planner and method for planning a path plan having a spiral component Nicholas Simon Flann, Sarah Ann Gray 2007-06-05 $155,243,000
7216033 Path planner and method for planning a contour path of a vehicle Nicholas Simon Flann, Sarah Ann Gray 2007-05-08 $20,723,000
7110881 Modular path planner Sarah Ann Gray, Nicholas Simon Flann 2006-09-19 $45,326,000
7079943 Point-to-point path planning Nicholas Simon Flann, Sarah Ann Gray 2006-07-18 $43,389,000
7010425 Path planner and a method for planning a path of a work vehicle Sarah Ann Gray, Nicholas Simon Flann 2006-03-07 $13,605,000
6934615 Method and system for determining an efficient vehicle path Nicholas Simon Flann, Sarah Ann Gray 2005-08-23 $12,588,000
6907336 Method and system for efficiently traversing an area with a work vehicle Sarah Ann Gray, Nicholas Simon Flann 2005-06-14 $23,979,000