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Michael Ford — 5 Patents

MIMars, Incorporated: 2 patents #358 of 1,238Top 30%
OSOsram Sylvania: 1 patents #499 of 820Top 65%
Overall (All Time): #907,971 of 4,157,543Top 25%
5 Patents All Time
Michael Ford has been granted 5 US patents while listed as an inventor at Mars, Incorporated. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in April 2019. Michael Ford ranks #907,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 21.8%). Patent records list Michael Ford in Sydney, MA, AU.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 2000.peak 12000: 1 patents20002002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents20042017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–5 of 5 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10259621 Container Matthew Cutts, Lynne Morrison, James Brennan, Stuart May, Matthew Cormack 2019-04-16
9815598 Container Matthew Cutts, Lynne Morrison, James Brennan, Stuart May, Matthew Cormack 2017-11-14
6793617 Portable and disposable examination unit with air tube frame Thomas E. Ford, Douglas Ford 2004-09-21
6486595 Electric lamp having press seal configuration for exhaust tube protection Mitchell R. Gagnon, William L. Kretovic, Arnold R. Cernota, Gregory Bibbo 2002-11-26
6047325 Network device for supporting construction of virtual local area networks on arbitrary local and wide area computer networks Lalit Jain 2000-04-04