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Steven L. Applegate — 14 Patents

IBM: 11 patents #10,022 of 70,183Top 15%
LILexmark International: 3 patents #642 of 1,615Top 40%
Lexington, KY: #203 of 2,526 inventorsTop 9%
Kentucky: #749 of 11,577 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Steven L. Applegate has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in July 2003. Steven L. Applegate ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Steven L. Applegate in Lexington, KY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6600882 Measuring toner level in a closed container James J. Molloy 2003-07-29 $14,436,000
5995774 Method and apparatus for storing data in a non-volatile memory circuit mounted on a printer's process cartridge Cyrus Bradford Clarke, Timothy P. Craig, David Lee Merrifield, James J. Molloy, Benjamin Keith Newman +5 more 1999-11-30 $23,156,000
5708943 Compliant doctor blade surface having molybdenum disulfide Peter Wallace Bracken, Jeffery R. Brener, Martin Victor DiGirolamo, Samuel Edward Mullinix, Jr., Donald Wayne Stafford +1 more 1998-01-13 $6,839,000
5012289 Toner metering apparatus Charles Stanley Aldrich, James A. Craft, James J. Molloy, Michael L. Pawley 1991-04-30 $21,156,000
4775252 Thermal printhead actuator responsive to carriage drive and including a four bar linkage and spring James J. Molloy, Deh C. Tao 1988-10-04 $27,996,000
4740092 Printhead shifting for wear distribution John C. Bartlett, Brian Wesley Damon, David W. Holcomb, Cary Patterson Ravitz 1988-04-26 $27,326,000
4661004 Ribbon feed tension mechanism James A. Craft 1987-04-28 $47,681,000
4558963 Feed rates and two-mode embodiments for thermal transfer medium conservation James J. Molloy, Clayton V. Wilbur 1985-12-17 $34,506,000
4413919 Ribbon loading system for printers James J. Molloy 1983-11-08 $19,258,000
4408908 Ribbon feed system for a matrix printer James J. Molloy 1983-10-11 $50,794,000
4396308 Ribbon guiding for thermal lift-off correction James J. Molloy, Donald A. Walker 1983-08-02 $14,151,000
4390884 Printhead stylus assembly Edward R. Lloyd 1983-06-28 $24,721,000
4329071 Current collector for resistive ribbon printers Stanley Dyer 1982-05-11 $15,203,000
4329075 Printhead assembly for typewriters or the like James J. Molloy 1982-05-11 $15,203,000