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Michael Simpson — 6 Patents

BTBritish American Tobacco: 3 patents #75 of 318Top 25%
NLNicoventures Trading Limited: 2 patents #158 of 303Top 55%
BJBritish American Tobacco Japan: 1 patents #4 of 14Top 30%
Eli Lilly: 1 patents #1,752 of 2,858Top 65%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Michael Simpson has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at British American Tobacco. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in May 2025. Michael Simpson ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Michael Simpson in Kawagoe, TX, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2017.peak 21998: 1 patents19982017: 2 patents20172020: 1 patents20202023: 1 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12295408 Smoking article filter and insertable filter unit therefor Graham Penrose, Michael Malthouse, David Wake, Gary Fulcher, Aaron Brookbank +9 more 2025-05-13
11678694 Smoking article filter and insertable filter unit therefor Graham Penrose, Michael Malthouse, David Wake, Gary Fulcher, Aaron Brookbank +9 more 2023-06-20
10729171 Smoking article filter and insertable filter unit therefor Graham Penrose, Michael Malthouse, David Wake, Gary Fulcher, Aaron Brookbank +9 more 2020-08-04 $20,179,000
9826778 Sleeve Richard E. Young, John Richardson 2017-11-28
9565874 Smoking article and method of manufacturing a smoking article Karl Kaljura, Kevin Blick, David Paton 2017-02-14
D390702 Barrel top tray Billy C. Lawton, Cristopher A. Young 1998-02-17