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John M. Williams — 29 Patents

Merck: 16 patents #669 of 9,382Top 8%
GEGenzyme: 8 patents #65 of 891Top 8%
HAHughes Aircraft: 2 patents #748 of 2,963Top 30%
General Motors: 1 patents #9,441 of 18,328Top 55%
Hopkinton, MA: #26 of 444 inventorsTop 6%
Massachusetts: #3,317 of 88,656 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #127,851 of 4,157,543Top 4%
29 Patents All Time
John M. Williams has been granted 29 US patents while listed as an inventor at Merck. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in August 2021. John M. Williams ranks #127,851 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.1%). Patent records list John M. Williams in Hopkinton, MA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1988 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2006.peak 51988: 1 patents19881990: 1 patents1991: 2 patents19911993: 1 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2006: 5 patents20062007: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 3 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142017: 1 patents2021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 29 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11090374 Enhancing immunogenicity of Streptococcus pneumoniae polysaccharide-protein conjugates Jian He, John E. MacNair, William J. Smith, Michael Albert Winters, Joseph G. Joyce +7 more 2021-08-17 $330,948,000
9579325 Modulators of TNF-α signaling Scott F. Sneddon, John Kane, Bradford H. Hirth, Frederic Vinick, Shuang Qiao +2 more 2017-02-28
8921547 Modulators of TNF-α signaling Scott F. Sneddon, John Kane, Bradford H. Hirth, Frederic Vinick, Shuang Qiao +2 more 2014-12-30
8518999 Modulators of TNF-αsignaling Scott F. Sneddon, John Kane, Bradford H. Hirth, Fred Vinick, Shuang Qiao +2 more 2013-08-27
8070004 Container flooring system Michael S Hohndorf 2011-12-06
7687530 Inhibition of chronic tissue transplant rejection 2010-03-30 $109,154,000
7678822 Induction of immune tolerance 2010-03-16 $57,273,000
7648440 Method and apparatus to control operation of an electro-mechanical transmission Peter E. Wu, Thyag Sadasiwan 2010-01-19
RE40794 Crystalline forms of carbapenem antibiotics and methods of preparation Karel Marie Joseph Brands, Raymond Cvetovich, Louis Crocker, Michael D. Ward, Amar J. Mahajan +5 more 2009-06-23
7217718 Induction of immune tolerance 2007-05-15 $42,171,000
7145002 Crystalline forms of carbapenem antibiotics and methods of preparation Karel Marie Joseph Brands, Raymond Cvetovich, Louis Crocker, Michael D. Ward, Amar J. Mahajan +5 more 2006-12-05 $64,547,000
7071330 Process for carbapenem synthesis Renato Skerlj 2006-07-04
7034031 Modulators of TNF-α signaling Scott F. Sneddon, John Kane, Bradford H. Hirth, Fred Vinick, Shuang Qiao +2 more 2006-04-25 $46,335,000
7022841 Process for making carbapenem compounds Raymond Cvetovich, Robert Wenslow, Daniel R. Sidler, Louis Crocker, Hsien-Hsin Tung +3 more 2006-04-04 $90,302,000
7009055 Preparation of Sulfonyl quinoline Feng Xu, Kimberly A. Savary 2006-03-07 $77,715,000
6969728 Modulators of TNF-α signaling Scott F. Sneddon, John Kane, Bradford H. Hirth, Fred Vinick, Shuang Qiao +2 more 2005-11-29 $110,036,000
6504027 Decarboxylation process for synthesizing carbapenem antibiotics Karel Marie Joseph Brands, Renato Skerlj, Peter Houghton 2003-01-07 $394,184,000
6479667 Crystalline forms of antibiotic side chain intermediates Karel Brands, Karen M. Conrad 2002-11-12 $64,394,000
6297231 Stabilized carbapenem antibiotic compositions and method of making Orn Almarsson, Michael J. Kaufman, John D. Stong 2001-10-02 $219,676,000
6180783 Stabilized carbapenem intermediates and improved process for carbapenem synthesis Renato Skerlj, Karel Marie Joseph Brands, Ulf H. Dolling, Ronald B. Jobson 2001-01-30 $230,976,000
6063931 Process for synthesizing carbapenem side chain intermediates Karel Marie Joseph Brands, Ulf H. Dolling, Ronald B. Jobson, Antony John Davies, Ian Frank Cottrell +2 more 2000-05-16 $159,192,000
6060607 Process for synthesizing carbapenem side chain intermediates Karel Marie Joseph Brands, Ulf H. Dolling, Ronald B. Jobson, Antony John Davies, Ian Frank Cottrell +2 more 2000-05-09 $280,898,000
5952323 Carbapenem antibiotic Jeffrey A. Zimmerman, Paul A. Bergquist, Lisa DiMichele, David C. Dubost, Michael J. Kaufman +2 more 1999-09-14 $82,986,000
5872250 Process for synthesizing carbapenem antibiotics Ronald B. Jobson 1999-02-16 $121,562,000
5237061 Methods of synthesizing benign prostatic hypertropic agents and their intermediates Apurba Bhattacharya, Ulf H. Dolling, Joseph S. Amato 1993-08-17 $32,375,000