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William F. Klems — 4 Patents

LSLear Seating: 2 patents #9 of 43Top 25%
EDEnergy Development: 1 patents #17 of 45Top 40%
MLMagna Lomason: 1 patents #5 of 10Top 50%
Royal Oak, MI: #352 of 1,428 inventorsTop 25%
Michigan: #22,248 of 86,293 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
William F. Klems has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Lear Seating. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in April 1998. William F. Klems ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list William F. Klems in Royal Oak, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 1998Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1993.peak 21988: 1 patents19881993: 2 patents19931998: 1 patents1998

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5743982 Method for bonding a cover to a flexible pad Donald F. Marfilius, Iftikhar Kamil 1998-04-28
5254197 Microwave bonding of foam to fabric using water as a susceptor 1993-10-19
5175916 Locator strip and method for positioning fabric covers on a foam cushion 1993-01-05
4746585 Comb-type bipolar stack Edward Stoner, Paul S. Sapienza 1988-05-24 $1,239,000