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William D. Kight — 10 Patents

GE: 10 patents #3,367 of 36,430Top 10%
Poseyville, IN: #1 of 10 inventorsTop 10%
Indiana: #3,690 of 33,936 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
William D. Kight has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in September 2003. William D. Kight ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list William D. Kight in Poseyville, IN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2003Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2002.peak 31986: 1 patents19861995: 1 patents19951996: 2 patents19961998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992002: 3 patents20022003: 1 patents2003

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6620974 Method and system for manufacturing cumene hydroperoxide John W. Fulmer, Eugene Edward Scott 2003-09-16 $54,496,000
6465695 Method and system for manufacturing cumene hydroperoxide John W. Fulmer, Eugene Edward Scott 2002-10-15 $36,016,000
6436360 Method of cleaning industrial waste gases Arkady Samuilovich Dyckman, John W. Fulmer, Bradley Norman Geyer, Vladimir Yevgenyevich Pastor, Andrey Vladimirovich Zinenkov 2002-08-20 $34,652,000
6372021 Extractive removal of methanol from cumene-to-phenol process vent gas David Lee Boggs, Paul William Buckley, Andrew H. Farrell, John W. Fulmer, Bradley Norman Geyer +1 more 2002-04-16 $77,084,000
5908962 Cumene oxidation process Vladimir M. Zakoshansky, Andrei K. Griaznov, Irina I. Vasilieva, John W. Fulmer 1999-06-01 $276,462,000
5767322 Cumene oxidation process Vladimir M. Zakoshansky, Andrei K. Griaznov, Irina I. Vasilieva, John W. Fulmer 1998-06-16 $151,892,000
5510543 Removal and neutralization of acid catalyst from products of cumene hydroperoxide cleavage John W. Fulmer, Andrei K. Griaznov, Vladimir M. Zakoshansky 1996-04-23 $21,263,000
5504251 Co-cracking of BPA and phenol process tars Arkady Samuilovich Dyckman, Andrey Vladimirovich Zinenkov, Boris I. Gorovits, Valentina Y. Shefter, John W. Fulmer 1996-04-02 $26,722,000
5457244 Phenol tar waste reduction process Arkadys S. Dyckman, John W. Fulmer, Andrey Vladimirovich Zinenkov, Vadim P. Boyarsky, Boris I. Gorovits +5 more 1995-10-10 $66,686,000
4626600 Process for purifying acetone John W. Fulmer 1986-12-02 $10,180,000