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Kent L. Earle — 10 Patents

ETEtcon: 7 patents #1 of 6Top 20%
MCMcgraw-Edison: 1 patents #75 of 210Top 40%
Plato Township, IL: #2 of 16 inventorsTop 15%
Illinois: #9,022 of 84,256 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Kent L. Earle has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Etcon. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in January 2000. Kent L. Earle ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Kent L. Earle in Plato Township, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2000Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1997.peak 31981: 1 patents19811988: 1 patents19881989: 2 patents19891995: 2 patents19951997: 3 patents19972000: 1 patents2000

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6014810 Portable tubing cutter Greg L. Lauriano 2000-01-18
5642052 Hand-held tester for receptacle ground fault circuit interrupters 1997-06-24
5617018 Device for measuring a wide range of voltages and for determining continuity 1997-04-01
5612616 Device for measuring a wide range of voltages and for determining continuity 1997-03-18
5477133 Device for measuring a wide range of voltages and for determining continuity using visual and tactile indicators 1995-12-19
5422564 Low-power portable circuit breaker(s) locator Joseph Rocci 1995-06-06
4797604 Wire length meter suppling current to a wire from which a signal representative of length is derived Joseph Rocci, John J. Crosetto, David W. Kirby 1989-01-10
4795936 Driven rotary shaft system using permanent magnets John J. Crosetto, Anthony Jordan 1989-01-03
4742258 Driven rotary shaft system using permanent magnets John J. Crossetto, Stephen D. Cwian, Anthony Jordan 1988-05-03
4249120 Variable speed induction motor control system 1981-02-03 $4,135,000