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Stephen J. Sutton — 4 Patents

General Motors: 3 patents #4,723 of 18,328Top 30%
Fenton, MI: #107 of 454 inventorsTop 25%
Michigan: #22,248 of 86,293 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Stephen J. Sutton has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at General Motors. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in September 1988. Stephen J. Sutton ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Stephen J. Sutton in Fenton, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 1988Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1988.peak 21982: 1 patents19821987: 1 patents19871988: 2 patents1988

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
4771970 Pressure flow control device 1988-09-20
4718827 Fuel pump John E. Creager, Richard F. Kostelic 1988-01-12
4638305 Apparatus for detecting water in fuel 1987-01-20
4316174 Threshold detector for a condition indication John E. Creager, Robert B. Gelenius 1982-02-16 $9,260,000