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Thomas Hoster — 7 Patents

FKFried Krupp: 3 patents #29 of 258Top 15%
GAGebr. Pfeiffer Ag: 1 patents #5 of 7Top 75%
Essen, DE: #188 of 1,592 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Thomas Hoster has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Fried Krupp. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in May 2012. Thomas Hoster ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Thomas Hoster in Essen, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1985.peak 21985: 2 patents19851986: 2 patents19861988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents19892012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8172168 Roller grinding mill Dirk Hoffmann, Otto Jung, Karl-Heinz Schuette, Hardy Lessmeister 2012-05-08
4851040 Process for producing iron from fine-grained iron ores Irmgard Hoster, Dieter Neuschutz, Dietrich Radke 1989-07-25
4786321 Method and apparatus for the continuous melting of scrap Dieter Neuschutz, Wolf-Dieter Ropke 1988-11-22
4629506 Process for the production of ferrochromium Klaus Ulrich, Wilhelm Janssen, Dieter Neuschuetz, Hermann Doerr, Dietrich Radke 1986-12-16
4576638 Process for the production of ferromanganese Hermann Doerr, Dieter Neuschuetz, Dietrich Radke, Wilhelm Janssen, Klaus Ulrich 1986-03-18
4553582 Apparatus for casting steel in a continuous casting mold equipped with comoving mold walls Gerd Artz, Dieter Figge, Jurgen Potschke 1985-11-19
4502526 Seal for a continuous steel caster Gerd Artz, Dieter Figge, Clemens Philipp 1985-03-05