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Michael Alan Better — 6 Patents

ExxonMobil: 6 patents #1,830 of 10,161Top 20%
League City, TX: #87 of 561 inventorsTop 20%
Texas: #24,637 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Michael Alan Better has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at ExxonMobil. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in February 2016. Michael Alan Better ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Michael Alan Better in League City, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1993.peak 21993: 2 patents19931994: 1 patents19942005: 2 patents20052016: 1 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9266801 Olefin hydration process Charles M. Yarbrough, Seth M. Washburn, Dennis Jay Davoren 2016-02-23 $100,273,000
6936744 Alkylaromatics production Jane C. Cheng, Michael A. Steckel, Charles Morris Smith, William A. Weber, Stephen H. Brown +1 more 2005-08-30 $864,400,000
6911568 Regeneration of aromatic alkylation catalysts using hydrocarbon stripping Ajit B. Dandekar, John P. McWilliams, C. Morris Smith, Wei-Ping Tai 2005-06-28 $447,237,000
5276243 Sulfolane purification method Jonathan E. Child, Kenneth J. Del Rossi, Anagha A. Gupte, Tomas R. Melli, Sergei Yurchak 1994-01-04 $22,629,000
5264650 Sulfolane purification by hydrocarbon extraction Jonathan E. Child, Kenneth J. Del Rossi, Edward H. Edelson, Anagha A. Gupte, Rafi Jalkian +2 more 1993-11-23 $11,731,000
5264651 Method for regenerating HF/sulfolane alkylation catalyst Jonathan E. Child, Tomas R. Melli, Sergei Yurchak 1993-11-23 $11,731,000