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William A. Valka — 11 Patents

FMFmc: 5 patents #241 of 1,735Top 15%
NVIDIA: 3 patents #2,179 of 7,811Top 30%
Spring, TX: #278 of 2,039 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #13,915 of 125,132 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
William A. Valka has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Fmc. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in May 2002. William A. Valka ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list William A. Valka in Spring, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1992.peak 31981: 2 patents19811984: 1 patents19841990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents19911992: 3 patents19921993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents19942002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6386291 Subsea wellhead system and method for drilling shallow water flow formations David E. Short 2002-05-14
5299643 Dual radially locked subsea housing Vincent H. Vetter, Shiva P. Singeetham, Michael R. Williams 1994-04-05 $1,906,000
5259459 Subsea wellhead tieback connector 1993-11-09 $1,795,000
5107931 Temporary abandonment cap and tool Randy J. Wester 1992-04-28
5105888 Well casing hanger and packoff running and retrieval tool J. Roark Pollock 1992-04-21
5088556 Subsea well guide base running tool David E. Short 1992-02-18 $3,080,000
5069287 Retrievable guide base for subsea well David E. Short, Arthur G. Ahlstone 1991-12-03 $3,356,000
4969517 Sub-mudling casing hanger/packoff Glen C. Wieland 1990-11-13 $2,154,000
4438817 Subsea well with retrievable piping deck Roger L. Pokladnik 1984-03-27 $4,942,000
4300637 Tool for remotely determining the position of a device in an underwater well assembly 1981-11-17 $4,546,000
4300750 Position indicating valves Steven A. Porter 1981-11-17 $4,546,000