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Fred Apffel — 12 Patents

FLFlexivol: 6 patents #1 of 1Top 100%
Houston, TX: #1,852 of 21,073 inventorsTop 9%
Texas: #12,706 of 125,132 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Fred Apffel has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Flexivol. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in October 1991. Fred Apffel ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Fred Apffel in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 1991Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1981.peak 21981: 2 patents19811984: 1 patents19841986: 2 patents19861987: 2 patents19871988: 2 patents19881989: 2 patents19891991: 1 patents1991

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5057189 Recovery apparatus 1991-10-15
4861360 Carbon dioxide absorption methanol process 1989-08-29
4839151 Recovery process 1989-06-13
4767428 Nitrogen removal system 1988-08-30
4738699 Process for recovering ethane, propane and heavier hydrocarbons from a natural gas stream 1988-04-19
4675035 Carbon dioxide absorption methanol process 1987-06-23
4647443 Recovery process 1987-03-03
4597788 Process for recovering ethane, propane and heavier hydrocarbons from a natural gas stream 1986-07-01
4584006 Process for recovering propane and heavier hydrocarbons from a natural gas stream 1986-04-22
4456460 Process for recovering ethane, propane and heavier hydrocarbons from a natural gas stream 1984-06-26
4284616 Process for recovering carbon black and hydrocarbons from used tires Age Solbakken, Sam P. Robinson, Bobby L. Hayes 1981-08-18
4250158 Process for recovering carbon black and hydrocarbons from used tires Age Solbakken, Sam P. Robinson, Bobby L. Hayes 1981-02-10