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Warren W. Opheim — 4 Patents

IMImation: 4 patents #79 of 622Top 15%
Prior Lake, MN: #138 of 425 inventorsTop 35%
Minnesota: #16,016 of 52,454 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Warren W. Opheim has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Imation. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2001. Warren W. Opheim ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Warren W. Opheim in Prior Lake, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2001Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1996.peak 11996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents19982000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents2001

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6220539 Drive for handling multiple size information storage media cartridges and cartridges therefor James S. Anderson, Sten R. Gerfast, Robert W. Tapani, Hung T. Tran 2001-04-24 $5,563,000
6079653 Drive for handling multiple size information storage media cartridges and cartridges therefor James S. Anderson, Sten R. Gerfast, Robert W. Tapani, Hung T. Tran 2000-06-27 $10,695,000
5779172 Drive for handling multiple size information storage media cartridges and cartridges therefor James S. Anderson, Sten R. Gerfast, Robert W. Tapani, Hung T. Tran 1998-07-14 $2,082,000
5558291 Drive for handling multiple size information storage media cartridges and cartridges therefor James S. Anderson, Sten R. Gerfast, Robert W. Tapani, Hung T. Tran 1996-09-24 $8,857,000