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Helge Willner — 35 Patents

Merck: 33 patents #228 of 9,382Top 3%
BGBruker Analytische Messtechnik Gmbh: 1 patents #30 of 77Top 40%
Neheim, DE: #2 of 165 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Helge Willner has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at Merck. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in December 2016. Helge Willner ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Helge Willner in Neheim, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2012.peak 61989: 1 patents19892004: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 4 patents2010: 5 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 6 patents20122013: 2 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9518068 Compounds containing hydrido-tricyano-borate anions Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Kentaro Kawata, Tomohisa Goto, Eduard Bernhardt +1 more 2016-12-13 $109,867,000
9409925 Compounds containing hydrido-tricyano-borate anions Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Kentaro Kawata, Tomohisa Goto, Eduard Bernhardt +1 more 2016-08-09 $96,538,000
9163039 Process for the preparation of bis(perfluoroalkyl)phosphinic acid anhydrides Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Waldemar Wiebe 2015-10-20 $195,645,000
8962892 Process for the preparation of tris(perfluoroalkyl)phosphine oxides Nikolai Mykola Ignatyev, Waldemar Wiebe 2015-02-24 $132,352,000
8927714 Process for preparing dihydridodicyanoborate salts Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Eduard Bernhardt, Vera Bernhardt-Pitchougina 2015-01-06 $93,479,000
8859813 Ionic liquids having uronium cations and a process for making same Nikolai Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, German Bissky, Andriy Kucheryna 2014-10-14 $39,553,000
8846922 Functionalized fluoroalkyl fluorophosphate salts Berthold Theo Hoge, Anne Julia Bader, Nikolai Mykola Ignatyev, Michael Schulte, Wolfgang Hierse +1 more 2014-09-30 $59,576,000
8702815 Cyanoborate, fluoroalkylphosphate, fluoroalkylborate or imide dyes Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, Maik Finze, Eduard Bernhardt, Andriy Kucheryna 2014-04-22 $83,770,000
8436199 Strong boron-containing acids, the preparation and use thereof Maik Finze, Eduard Bernhardt, Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann 2013-05-07 $67,103,000
8378157 Method for producing bis(fluoralkyl)phosphinic acid chlorides or fluoralkylphosphonic acid chlorides Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Dana Bejan, Emil Aust 2013-02-19 $53,314,000
8269041 Ionic liquids having uronium or thiouronium cations Nikolai Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, German Bissky, Andriy Kucheryna 2012-09-18
8211277 Compounds containing organofluorochlorophosphate anions Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, German Bissky 2012-07-03 $92,200,000
8148443 Oxonium and sulfonium salts Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, German Bissky 2012-04-03 $65,455,000
8143452 Salts having alkoxytris(fluoroalkyl)borate anions Nikola (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, Maik Finze, Eduard Bernhardt 2012-03-27 $58,464,000
8106217 Ionic liquids with bis[bis(pentafluoroalkyl)phosphinyl]imides Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, Michael Heckmeier, German Bissky 2012-01-31 $54,545,000
8101749 Process for the preparation of onium salts with a tetrafluoroborate anion having a reduced halide content Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, Andriy Kucheryna 2012-01-24 $205,165,000
8084617 Ionic liquids having fluoroalkyltrifluoroborate anions Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, German Bissky, Andriy Kucheryna 2011-12-27 $449,547,000
7999111 Process for the preparation of onium alkylsulfonates Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, Andriy Kucheryna 2011-08-16 $53,618,000
7939644 Cyanoborate, fluoroalkylphosphate, fluoroalkylborate or imide dyes Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, Maik Finze, Eduard Bernhardt, Andriy Kucheryna 2011-05-10 $223,023,000
7842804 Ionic salts comprising pyrrolidinium, triazolinium, piperidinium or morpholinium cations and alkyltrifluorophosphate anions Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, German Bissky 2010-11-30 $81,981,000
7709656 Ionic liquids containing guanidinium cations Urs Welz-Biermann, Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, German Bissky 2010-05-04 $99,346,000
7700781 Salts having alkoxytris(fluoroalkyl)borate anions Nikola (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, Maik Finze, Eduard Bernhardt 2010-04-20 $53,351,000
7692007 Process for the preparation of onium salts having a low chloride content Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Urs Welz-Biermann, Peter Barthen 2010-04-06 $50,617,000
7645434 Salts comprising cyanoborate anions Urs Welz-Biermann, Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Eduard Bernhardt, Maik Finze 2010-01-12 $255,286,000
7632969 Process for the preparation of perfluoroalkylphosphines and the use thereof as perfluoroalkylating reagents Urs Welz-Biermann, Nikolai (Mykola) Ignatyev, Michael Weiden, Michael Schmidt, Udo Heider +2 more 2009-12-15 $106,751,000