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Fount E. McKee — 7 Patents

DEDelta-X: 7 patents #1 of 4Top 25%
Houston, TX: #3,335 of 21,073 inventorsTop 20%
Texas: #21,608 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Fount E. McKee has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Delta-X. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in July 1998. Fount E. McKee ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Fount E. McKee in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 1998Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1981.peak 11981: 1 patents19811985: 1 patents19851988: 1 patents19881990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents19911992: 1 patents19921998: 1 patents1998

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5782608 Method and apparatus for controlling a progressing cavity well pump 1998-07-21
5167490 Method of calibrating a well pumpoff controller Douglas M. Crume 1992-12-01
5064348 Determination of well pumping system downtime Douglas M. Crume 1991-11-12
4973226 Method and apparatus for controlling a well pumping unit 1990-11-27
4738313 Gas lift optimization 1988-04-19
4509552 Gas gun for determining the liquid level of a well Dean A. Eicher 1985-04-09
4268228 Hydraulic pumping unit 1981-05-19