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Thomas E. Richardson — 23 Patents

Merck: 17 patents #622 of 9,382Top 7%
RERenovion: 2 patents #3 of 5Top 60%
APAerie Pharmaceuticals: 1 patents #32 of 46Top 70%
CACavion: 1 patents #8 of 9Top 90%
MPMomenta Pharmaceuticals: 1 patents #74 of 112Top 70%
Bristol-Myers Squibb: 1 patents #2,493 of 3,969Top 65%
Chapel Hill, NC: #148 of 1,999 inventorsTop 8%
North Carolina: #1,915 of 45,564 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Thomas E. Richardson has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Merck. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in September 2025. Thomas E. Richardson ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Thomas E. Richardson in Chapel Hill, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2018.peak 42004: 1 patents20042008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092014: 3 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 3 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 1 patents20192021: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12427180 Treatment of respiratory tract diseases and infections with ascorbic acid compositions Dan Copeland, Carolyn DURHAM 2025-09-30
11602555 Treatment of respiratory tract diseases and infections with ascorbic acid compositions Dan Copeland, Carolyn DURHAM 2023-03-14
11130750 Calcium channel inhibitors Michelle Higgin, Timothy L. Macdonald 2021-09-28
10183935 Benzamide derivatives as modulators of the follicle stimulating hormone Henry Yu, Pandi Bharathi, Brian H. Heasley, Matthew G. Jenks, Robert James Foglesong 2019-01-22 $237,626,000
10138233 Imidazole compounds as modulators of FSHR and uses thereof Henry Yu, Marianne Donnelly, Ngan Nguyen, Xuliang Jiang 2018-11-27 $94,550,000
9938262 Benzamides Henry Yu, Andreas Goutopoulos, Jiezhen Li, Brian H. Heasley, Pandi Bharathi 2018-04-10 $62,414,000
9938268 C-ring modified tricyclic benzonaphthiridinone protein kinase inhibitors and use thereof Yufang Xiao, Bayard R. Huck, Amanda E. Sutton, Srinivasa Karra 2018-04-10 $62,414,000
9879004 Substituted acetylene derivatives and their use as positive allosteric modulators of mGluR4 Nadia Brugger, Justin Potnick 2018-01-30 $67,960,000
9775830 Dihydropyrazoles Henry Yu, Robert James Foglesong, Lizbeth Celeste Deselm, Andreas Goutopoulos 2017-10-03 $57,353,000
9763938 Substituted quinoxalines as positive allosteric modulators of mGluR4 2017-09-19 $59,418,000
9708321 Spiro-quinazolinone derivatives and their use as positive allosteric modulators of mGluR4 Nadia Brugger, Brian L. Hodous, Amanda E. Sutton, Justin Potnick, Theresa L. Johnson +3 more 2017-07-18 $61,300,000
9517227 Dihydropyrazoles Henry Yu, Robert James Foglesong, Lizbeth Celeste Deselm, Andreas Goutopoulos 2016-12-13 $109,867,000
9498475 Benzamides Henry Yu, Andreas Goutopoulos, Jiezhen Li, Brian H. Heasley, Pandi Bharathi 2016-11-22 $87,862,000
9409897 Benzamide derivatives as modulators of the follicle stimulating hormone Henry Yu, Pandi Bharathi, Brian H. Heasley, Matthew G. Jenks, Robert James Foglesong 2016-08-09 $96,538,000
9181226 Benzamides Henry Yu, Jiezhen Li, Pandi Bharathi, Brian H. Heasley, Andreas Goutopoulos 2015-11-10 $53,453,000
9040560 Amino azaheterocyclic carboxamides Amanda E. Sutton, Bayard R. Huck, Srinivasa Karra, Xiaoling Chen, Yufang Xiao +10 more 2015-05-26 $159,598,000
9023847 Azaheterocyclic compounds Amanda E. Sutton, Nadia Brugger, Harold George Vandeveer, Bayard R. Huck, Ruoxi Lan +1 more 2015-05-05 $66,112,000
8791114 Dihydropyrazoles Henry Yu, Robert James Foglesong, Lizbeth Celeste Deselm, Andreas Goutopoulos 2014-07-29 $123,958,000
8710044 Bicyclic azaheterocyclic carboxamides Bayard R. Huck, Constantin Neagu, Reinaldo Jones, Lizbeth Celeste Deselm, Yufang Xiao +4 more 2014-04-29 $93,575,000
8637532 Amino azaheterocyclic carboxamides Amanda E. Sutton, Ruoxi Lan, David Perrey, Harold George Vandeveer, Bayard R. Huck +10 more 2014-01-28 $54,750,000
7560444 Polysaccharides for pulmonary delivery of active agents Ganesh Venkataraman, Yiwei Qi, Michele Picard 2009-07-14 $7,079,000
7470787 Isoquinoline compounds Mitchell A. deLong, Marcos Sznaidman, Robert H. Oakley, Allen E. Eckhardt, Christine Hudson +6 more 2008-12-30
6673810 Imidazo-heterobicycles as factor Xa inhibitors Patrick Lam, Charles G. Clark, Qi Han 2004-01-06 $55,195,000