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William C. Copenhafer — 19 Patents

FMFmc: 7 patents #146 of 1,735Top 9%
FWFmc Wyoming: 6 patents #1 of 6Top 20%
IDIntermountain Research & Development: 4 patents #1 of 16Top 7%
Yardley, PA: #63 of 643 inventorsTop 10%
Pennsylvania: #3,661 of 74,527 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
William C. Copenhafer has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at Fmc. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in October 2014. William C. Copenhafer ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list William C. Copenhafer in Yardley, PA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1981.peak 21981: 2 patents19811985: 1 patents1986: 1 patents19861987: 2 patents1988: 1 patents19881993: 2 patents1994: 1 patents19942000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032006: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8858902 Selective removal of sulfide from aqueous alkali solutions 2014-10-14
8454840 Selective removal of sulfide from aqueous alkali solutions 2013-06-04
7998446 Flue gas desulfurization process utilizing hydrogen peroxide Henry A. Pfeffer 2011-08-16 $8,904,000
7638109 Production of sodium sesquicarbonate and sodium carbonate monohydrate 2009-12-29 $15,678,000
7018594 Crystallization of sodium carbonate decahydrate from liquors supersaturated in sodium bicarbonate 2006-03-28
6576206 Bicarbonate conversion in a carbonate monohydrate process Thomas H. Neuman 2003-06-10
6428759 Production of feed liquors for sodium carbonate crystallization processes David E. Smith, Richard W. Chastain 2002-08-06
6228335 Process for the production of sodium carbonate crystals David E. Smith 2001-05-08
6022516 Method of reducing the formation of scale in the production of soda ash from trona and nahcolite ores Edward Maleskas 2000-02-08 $4,494,000
5283054 Process for producing sodium salts from brines of sodium ores David E. Smith, Gerald Niedringhaus 1994-02-01 $3,486,000
5262134 Process for producing sodium salts from brines of sodium ores William R. Frint 1993-11-16 $1,027,000
5194176 Peroxygen laundry bleach Basil A. Guiliano, William A. Hills, Charles V. Juekle, Stephen Tomko 1993-03-16 $2,400,000
4729881 Hydrometallurgical process for the production of beryllium 1988-03-08 $6,710,000
4654204 Production of sodium bicarbonate by reversion of soda-type feed salt Henry A. Pfeffer, Francis Rauh 1987-03-31 $3,185,000
4652054 Solution mining of trona or nahcolite ore with electrodialytically-produced aqueous sodium hydroxide Henry A. Pfeffer 1987-03-24 $9,769,000
4588569 Dry injection flue gas desulfurization process using absorptive soda ash sorbent Michael J. Cyran 1986-05-13 $4,255,000
4519806 Enhanced recovery of soda ash from aqueous sodium carbonate solutions containing Na.sub.2 SO.sub.4 - and NaCl Michael L. Pinsky 1985-05-28 $3,010,000
4288419 Enhanced recovery of sodium carbonate from NaCl-containing sodium carbonate solutions Francis Rauh 1981-09-08 $1,868,000
4283372 Recovery of alkali values from sodium bicarbonate-containing ore with ammonia William R. Frint, Michael L. Pinsky 1981-08-11 $1,996,000