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Douglas A. Yates — 19 Patents

ExxonMobil: 8 patents #1,392 of 10,161Top 15%
COCovaris: 5 patents #4 of 21Top 20%
DPDell Products: 1 patents #4,917 of 6,855Top 75%
Spicewood, TX: #9 of 90 inventorsTop 10%
Texas: #7,372 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Douglas A. Yates has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at ExxonMobil. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in January 2024. Douglas A. Yates ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Douglas A. Yates in Spicewood, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1980.peak 31980: 3 patents19801981: 2 patents19811985: 1 patents19851986: 2 patents19862010: 3 patents20102012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132018: 2 patents20182020: 3 patents20202024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
11879273 Portable lock with integrity sensors Steven R. Jones, Frank Murtland, Edward J. Gross 2024-01-23
10778285 Cable with integral sensing elements for fault detection Steven R. Jones, Frank Murtland, Edward J. Gross 2020-09-15
10641013 Portable lock with integrity sensors Steven R. Jones, Frank Murtland, Edward J. Gross 2020-05-05
10544605 Sliding lockable housing with supplemental openings Edward J. Gross, Steven R. Jones, Kevin Keller 2020-01-28
D821177 Portable lock housing Kevin Keller, Rocco West Calandruccio, Steven R. Jones, Edward J. Gross 2018-06-26
9984016 Systems and methods for hardware arbitration of a communications bus Jared Terry 2018-05-29
8353619 Methods and apparatus for treating samples with acoustic energy James A. Laugharn, Jr., Brevard S. Garrison 2013-01-15
8263005 Methods and systems for modulating acoustic energy delivery James A. Laugharn, Jr., Brevard S. Garrison, Robert McKnight 2012-09-11
7811525 Methods and systems for modulating acoustic energy delivery James A. Laugharn, Jr., Brevard S. Garrison, Robert McKnight 2010-10-12
7757561 Methods and systems for processing samples using acoustic energy James A. Laugharn, Jr., Brevard S. Garrison 2010-07-20
7687039 Methods and systems for modulating acoustic energy delivery James A. Laugharn, Jr., Brevard S. Garrison, Robert McKnight 2010-03-30
4612698 Method of fabricating solar cells Ronald C. Gonsiorawski 1986-09-23
4609565 Method of fabricating solar cells 1986-09-02
4557037 Method of fabricating solar cells Jack I. Hanoka, James A. Gregory 1985-12-10
4290835 Method for crystal growth control Arthur E. Hatch, Jeff M. Goldsmith 1981-09-22
4267151 Apparatus for crystal growth control Arthur E. Hatch, Jeff M. Goldsmith 1981-05-12
4239583 Method and apparatus for crystal growth control Arthur E. Hatch 1980-12-16
4184907 Control of capillary die shaped crystal growth of silicon and germanium crystals 1980-01-22
4185076 Apparatus for controlled growth of silicon and germanium crystal ribbons Arthur E. Hatch 1980-01-22