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Durkee B. Richards — 10 Patents

IMImation: 6 patents #53 of 622Top 9%
3M: 4 patents #3,453 of 11,543Top 30%
Stillwater, MN: #138 of 719 inventorsTop 20%
Minnesota: #7,600 of 52,454 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Durkee B. Richards has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Imation. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in July 2006. Durkee B. Richards ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Durkee B. Richards in Stillwater, MN, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7079343 Time-based sectored servo data format Richard W. Molstad, Douglas W. Johnson 2006-07-18 $8,231,000
6781778 Time-based sectored servo data format Richard W. Molstad, Douglas W. Johnson 2004-08-24 $8,021,000
6700743 Tape media cleaning/finishing device Saeed Fahimi, Richard E. Jewett, Allan R. Markert 2004-03-02 $3,261,000
6690531 Dynamic tape path adjustment James S. Anderson, Leif O. Erickson 2004-02-10 $5,949,000
6295181 Tape bearing surface with reduce tape contact and method of making same Aboutorab S. Fahimi, Leif O. Erickson 2001-09-25 $3,461,000
5870924 Tape bearing surface with reduced tape contact and method of making same Aboutorab S. Fahimi, Leif O. Erickson 1999-02-16 $5,989,000
5450257 Head-tape alignment system and method Hung T. Tran, James S. Anderson, Christopher L. Hill, Robert J. Youngquist 1995-09-12 $12,025,000
5434732 Balanced cantilevered head positioning mechanism for multitrack tape recorder Theodore A. Schwarz, Robert J. Youngquist 1995-07-18 $10,779,000
5346155 Belt driven cartridge with magnetic brake assembly Jerry L. Alexander, Glenn R. Gaster 1994-09-13 $6,184,000
5280402 Combined stepper motor and voice coil head positioning apparatus James S. Anderson, Noel L. Allen, Theodore A. Schwarz, Robert W. Tapani, Hung T. Tran +1 more 1994-01-18 $14,639,000