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Ward E. Schultz — 11 Patents

HSHalliburton Energy Services: 9 patents #883 of 5,294Top 20%
Chevron: 2 patents #1,782 of 4,788Top 40%
Houston, TX: #2,053 of 21,073 inventorsTop 10%
Texas: #13,915 of 125,132 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Ward E. Schultz has been granted 11 US patents. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in October 2001. Ward E. Schultz ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Ward E. Schultz in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2001Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1987.peak 31983: 2 patents19831984: 1 patents19841985: 2 patents19851987: 3 patents19871995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents19962001: 1 patents2001

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6300624 Radiation detector Kwang Yoo, Larry L. Gadeken 2001-10-09 $42,374,000
5486695 Standoff compensation for nuclear logging while drilling systems Gordon L. Moake 1996-01-23 $19,647,000
5422480 Method and apparatus for the verification of helium-3 proportional counters 1995-06-06 $5,022,000
4700300 Indicating barehole rugosity as a function of the difference between shallow and deep log indices Harry D. Smith, Jr. 1987-10-13 $25,441,000
4691102 Borehole compensation method and apparatus using variations in relative borehole components Harry D. Smith, Jr. 1987-09-01 $7,552,000
4665486 Method and apparatus for reducing statistical variations in nuclear well logs 1987-05-12 $3,794,000
4493998 Method for monitoring drilling materials for gamma ray activity Harry D. Smith, Jr., Dan M. Arnold 1985-01-15 $8,259,000
4492864 Neutron well logging Harry D. Smith, Jr. 1985-01-08 $21,793,000
4436996 Borehole compensated KUT log Dan M. Arnold, Harry D. Smith, Jr. 1984-03-13 $6,872,000
4409481 Method for simultaneous measurement of thermal neutron decay components Harry D. Smith, Jr., Jerry L. Verbout 1983-10-11 $10,773,000
4380701 Nuclear well logging with neutron source and separate spaced radiation detectors to determine silicon/oxygen ratio Harry D. Smith, Jr. 1983-04-19 $20,786,000