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James R. Bragg — 15 Patents

ExxonMobil: 15 patents #742 of 10,161Top 8%
Houston, TX: #1,432 of 21,073 inventorsTop 7%
Texas: #9,849 of 125,132 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
James R. Bragg has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at ExxonMobil. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in September 2014. James R. Bragg ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list James R. Bragg in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1999.peak 31985: 1 patents19851986: 1 patents1987: 1 patents19871996: 1 patents1999: 3 patents19992000: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents20072012: 2 patents2014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8822387 Composition and method for using waxy oil-external emulsions to modify reservoir permeability profiles Joseph P. Lederhos, Sergio A. Leonardi, Scott E. Hommema, Amy L. Chen, Shan H. Yang 2014-09-02 $160,139,000
8146654 Composition and method for using waxy oil-external emulsions to modify reservoir permeability profiles Joseph P. Lederhos, Sergio A. Leonardi, Scott E. Hommema, Amy L. Chen, Shan H. Yang 2012-04-03 $124,635,000
8100178 Method of oil recovery using a foamy oil-external emulsion Robert D. Kaminsky, Sergio A. Leonardi 2012-01-24 $250,018,000
7186673 Stability enhanced water-in-oil emulsion and method for using same Ramesh Varadaraj, Dennis G. Peiffer, Chester W. Elspass 2007-03-06 $393,614,000
7121339 Solids-stabilized oil-in-water emulsion and a method for preparing same Ramesh Varadaraj 2006-10-17 $179,560,000
6988550 Solids-stabilized oil-in-water emulsion and a method for preparing same Ramesh Varadaraj 2006-01-24 $389,866,000
6734144 Solids-stabilized water-in-oil emulsion and method for using same Ramesh Varadaraj, Monte K. Dobson, Dennis G. Peiffer, John Huang, Donald B. Siano +2 more 2004-05-11 $128,750,000
6068054 Oil recovery method using an emulsion 2000-05-30 $732,688,000
5927404 Oil recovery method using an emulsion 1999-07-27 $155,569,000
5910467 Solids-stabilized emulsion 1999-06-08 $287,828,000
5855243 Oil recovery method using an emulsion 1999-01-05 $186,885,000
5490940 Method for forming mineral solids-oil floccules Shan H. Yang 1996-02-13 $63,104,000
4676315 Method for concentrating surfactant from a brine solution 1987-06-30 $31,858,000
4589998 Method for treating oil-water emulsions and recovering surfactants Walter W. Gale 1986-05-20 $20,139,000
4493774 Method for improving injectivities of biopolymer solutions 1985-01-15 $29,256,000