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Roy Cottrell — 8 Patents

FMFmc: 6 patents #180 of 469Top 40%
Houston, TX: #2,918 of 21,073 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #19,067 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Roy Cottrell has been granted 8 US patents. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in April 2025. Roy Cottrell ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Roy Cottrell in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2004.peak 42002: 1 patents20022004: 4 patents20042006: 1 patents20062018: 1 patents20182025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12280855 Soft yoke mooring arrangement 2025-04-22
9902464 Bending stiffness reducer for brace to hull connection Barton D. Grasso, Frank Strachan, Jose H. Vazquez 2018-02-27
6983712 Offloading arrangements and method for spread moored FPSOs Rick Hall, Brent A. Salyer, Caspar Heyl, Richard H. Gunderson 2006-01-10 $18,682,000
6817595 Swing arm chain support method Vernon Raymond Jenkins 2004-11-16 $4,627,000
6712560 Riser support for floating offshore structure 2004-03-30 $3,661,000
6708639 Single point mooring with suspension turret L. Terry Boatman 2004-03-23 $9,938,000
6688930 Hybrid buoyant riser/tension mooring system Martin Matthew Duensing 2004-02-10 $5,719,000
6439147 Mooring systems with active force reacting systems and passive damping L. Terry Boatman, Yonghui Liu 2002-08-27 $2,819,000