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Thad O. Walker — 23 Patents

ExxonMobil: 20 patents #520 of 10,161Top 6%
Humble, TX: #18 of 498 inventorsTop 4%
Texas: #5,758 of 125,132 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Thad O. Walker has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at ExxonMobil. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in January 1998. Thad O. Walker ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Thad O. Walker in Humble, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5710107 Environmentally safe drilling fluid 1998-01-20
5403820 Environmentally safe water base drilling fluid 1995-04-04
4584386 Alkylthiomethyl substituted mono-oxazolines Antonio Gutierrez, Darrell W. Brownawell, Stanley J. Brois 1986-04-22 $27,032,000
4579669 High temperature drilling fluids based on sulfonated thermoplastic polymers Dennis G. Peiffer, Robert D. Lundberg 1986-04-01 $15,739,000
4540496 Intramolecular polymer complexes - viscosifiers for high ionic strength drilling fluids Dennis G. Peiffer, Robert D. Lundberg, S. Richard Turner 1985-09-10 $27,764,000
4525522 Drilling fluids based on sulfonated thermoplastic polymers having improved low temperature rheological properties S. Richard Turner, Dennis G. Peiffer, Robert D. Lundberg 1985-06-25 $34,335,000
4510998 Fluid loss additive for well drilling Dennis G. Peiffer, Robert D. Lundberg 1985-04-16 $44,664,000
4508628 Fast drilling invert emulsion drilling fluids Jay P. Simpson, Harry L. Dearing, Jr. 1985-04-02
4491524 Lubricating additive for drilling muds Antonio Gutierrez, Darrell W. Brownawell, Stanley J. Brois 1985-01-01
4478727 Sodium styrene sulfonate-co-sodium-n-(4-sulfophenyl)-maleimide- an improved viscosity control additive S. Richard Turner, Warren A. Thaler 1984-10-23 $39,229,000
4465801 Interfacial viscosification of aqueous system utilizing sulfonated ionomers Dennis G. Peiffer, Robert D. Lundberg 1984-08-14 $36,657,000
4464269 Additive composition for release of stuck drill pipe Patricia C. Matthews 1984-08-07 $26,281,000
4447338 Drilling mud viscosification agents based on sulfonated ionomers Robert D. Lundberg, Charles P. O'Farrell, Henry S. Makowski 1984-05-08 $69,094,000
4442011 Drilling mud viscosification agents based on sulfonated ionomers Warren A. Thaler, Robert D. Lundberg, Joseph Wagensommer 1984-04-10 $13,845,000
4436638 Additive composition for release of stuck drill pipe Patricia C. Matthews 1984-03-13 $16,673,000
4427564 Additive composition for release of stuck drill pipe Darrell W. Brownawell, Antonio Gutierrez, Patricia C. Matthews 1984-01-24 $14,151,000
4427812 Interfacial viscosification of salt water systems utilizing sulfonated ionomers Dennis G. Peiffer, Robert D. Lundberg 1984-01-24 $14,151,000
4426473 Interfacial viscosification of aqueous acid systems utilizing sulfonated ionomers Dennis G. Peiffer, Robert D. Lundberg 1984-01-17 $13,816,000
4425462 Drilling fluids based on sulfonated elastomeric polymers S. Richard Turner, Robert D. Lundberg 1984-01-10 $10,591,000
4425455 Drilling fluids based on powdered sulfonated thermoplastic polymers S. Richard Turner, Robert D. Lundberg, Dennis G. Peiffer 1984-01-10 $10,591,000
4425461 Drilling fluids based on a mixture of a sulfonated thermoplastic polymer and a sulfonated elastomeric polymer S. Richard Turner, Robert D. Lundberg, Warren A. Thaler, Dennis G. Peiffer 1984-01-10 $10,591,000
4425463 Drilling fluids based on a mixture of sulfonated thermoplastic polymer and an amine-treated clay S. Richard Turner, Robert D. Lundberg, Warren A. Thaler, Dennis G. Pfeiffer 1984-01-10 $10,591,000
4382002 Drilling fluids containing an additive composition Darrell W. Brownawell, Antonio Gutierrez 1983-05-03 $51,611,000