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Douglas L. Ford — 20 Patents

MEMemtec: 19 patents #1 of 36Top 3%
Parramatta, AU: #26 of 1,414 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Douglas L. Ford has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Memtec. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in January 1994. Douglas L. Ford ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Douglas L. Ford in Parramatta, AU.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 1994Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1988.peak 41986: 2 patents19861987: 3 patents19871988: 4 patents19881989: 4 patents19891990: 4 patents19901991: 1 patents19911992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents1994

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5277851 Process of making a porous hollow fiber membrane Clinton V. Kopp, Robert J. W. Streeton 1994-01-11
5141611 Removing and recovering plant polyphenols 1992-08-25
5024762 Concentration of solids in a suspension Eric W. Anderson, Clinton V. Kopp 1991-06-18
4970273 Sulphuryl chloride/polyamide derivative support Richard D. Grant 1990-11-13
4931186 Concentration of solids in a suspension Eric W. Anderson, Clinton V. Kopp 1990-06-05
4921610 Cleaning of hollow fibre filters Noel Geoffrey Barton 1990-05-01
4909938 Reversed phase membranes 1990-03-20
4846976 Treatment of emulsions 1989-07-11
4822863 Sulphuryl chloride/polyamide derivative 1989-04-18
4816160 Cooling hollow fibre cross-flow separators Eric W. Anderson, Clinton V. Kopp 1989-03-28
4814083 Altering pore size distributions Richard D. Grant 1989-03-21
4793932 Variable volume filter or concentrator Clinton V. Kopp 1988-12-27
4781873 Reversed phase membranes 1988-11-01
4767539 Cleaning of hollow fiber filters utilized in lumenal gas flow 1988-08-30
4743378 Rapid vapor transport through unwetted porous barriers 1988-05-10
4668706 Substituted aliphatic polyamide porous membranes 1987-05-26
4661526 Cross linked porous membranes 1987-04-28
4655927 Separating oil emulsions 1987-04-07
4623463 Formation of porous membranes Clinton V. Kopp, Eric W. Anderson 1986-11-18
4613625 Substituted aliphatic polyamide porous membranes 1986-09-23