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Thomas A. Cain — 8 Patents

FIFiltertek: 4 patents #7 of 36Top 20%
SSSantera Systems: 3 patents #5 of 28Top 20%
Woodstock, IL: #24 of 216 inventorsTop 15%
Illinois: #11,515 of 84,256 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Thomas A. Cain has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Filtertek. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in January 2007. Thomas A. Cain ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Thomas A. Cain in Woodstock, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2007Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1991.peak 21986: 1 patents19861989: 1 patents19891991: 2 patents19912004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents20062007: 1 patents2007

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7162024 System and method for telephony call control Allen Wah, Joe Q. Vu, Eliot B. Rosen, Matthew Christopher Perry, Rajakumar V. Badri 2007-01-09
7016685 System and methods of dynamic load balancing across processor nodes Eliot B. Rosen, Rajakumar V. Badri, Allen Wah, Joe Q. Vu, Matthew Christopher Perry 2006-03-21
6944191 Method of optimizing equipment utilization in telecommunication access network Hao Hou, Na Li, San-Qi Li 2005-09-13
6695534 Fluid containment system Alex Lambert 2004-02-24
5049271 Fuel tank filter 1991-09-17 $251,000
5049274 Friction welding process and filter formed thereby Hayden Leason, Andrew Boast 1991-09-17 $251,000
4826598 Hermetically sealed transmission filter 1989-05-02 $455,000
4608166 Press fit filter 1986-08-26 $953,000