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Volker Meyer — 21 Patents

Merck: 21 patents #466 of 9,382Top 5%
Groß-Zimmern, DE: #2 of 60 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Volker Meyer has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Merck. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in March 2020. Volker Meyer ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Volker Meyer in Groß-Zimmern, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1995.peak 21992: 1 patents19921993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 2 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982001: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 1 patents2008: 2 patents20082009: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112015: 1 patents2020: 1 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10604703 Liquid crystal medium and liquid crystal display Michael Wittek, Mathias Bremer, Edward Plummer, Mila Fischer, Harald Lannert 2020-03-31 $383,446,000
9212244 Polymers made from mixtures comprising vinyl ether monomers Matthias Koehler, Edgar Boehm, Michael Junge, Eike Poetsch 2015-12-15 $109,716,000
7888519 Pyran compound or at least one derivative thereof Eike Poetsch, Werner Binder, Michael Heckmeier, Georg Luessem 2011-02-15 $70,469,000
7638641 Tetrahydropyran derivatives Peer Kirsch, Alexander Hahn, Eike Poetsch, Werner Binder 2009-12-29 $130,830,000
7344761 Liquid-crystalline compounds Peer Kirsch, Eike Poetsch, Alexander Hahn, Werner Binder, Michael Heckmeier +2 more 2008-03-18
7314943 Pyran derivatives containing an exocyclic double bond Eike Poetsch, Werner Binder, Michael Heckmeier, Georg Luessem, Stephan Guertler 2008-01-01
7291367 Liquid-crystalline compounds Peer Kirsch, Alexander Hahn, Eike Poetsch, Michael Heckmeier, Melanie Klasen-Memmer +2 more 2007-11-06 $106,444,000
7109381 Aldehydes containing a difluorooxymethylene bridge Eike Poetsch, Werner Binder, Stephan Gürtler, Juergen Eckstein, Michael Schwarz 2006-09-19 $69,070,000
7022865 Pyrans as liquid crystals Mark John Goulding, Warren Duffy, Kevin Adlem, Peer Kirsch, Alexander Hahn +5 more 2006-04-04 $90,302,000
6974607 Pyrans as liquid crystals Mark John Goulding, Warren Duffy, Kevin Adlem, Peer Kirsch, Alexander Hahn +5 more 2005-12-13 $417,698,000
6569505 Liquid crystal compounds, liquid crystal medium and liquid crystal display Eike Poetsch, Atsutaka Manabe, Volker Reiffenrath, Marcus Reuter, Joachim Krause +1 more 2003-05-27 $103,128,000
6326066 1,4-disubstituted 2,6-difluorobenzene compounds, and a liquid-crystalline medium Eike Poetsch, Volker Reiffenrath, Andreas Wachtler, Ulrich Finkenzeller, Hans-Adolf Kurmeier +5 more 2001-12-04 $293,132,000
6200654 1,4-disubstituted 2,6-difluorobenzene compounds, and a liquid-crystalline medium Eike Poetsch, Volker Reiffenrath, Andreas Wachtler, Ulrich Finkenzeller, Hans-Adolf Kurmeier +5 more 2001-03-13 $219,477,000
5817862 Process for the preparation of cinnamic acid derivatives Eike Poetsch, Ulrich Heywang, Rainer Christ, Jurgen Seubert 1998-10-06 $131,947,000
5639883 Process for preparing substituted 4-methylidenecinnamic acid derivatives Eike Poetsch, Ulrich Heywang, Inge Stein, Michael Schwarz, Michael Kompter 1997-06-17 $146,641,000
5496499 Biphenylethanes and liquid-crystalline phase Eike Poetsch, Klaus P. Stahl, Volker Reiffenrath, Ulrich Finkenzeller, Ekkehard Bartmann +6 more 1996-03-05 $99,757,000
5445764 Cyclobutane benzene derivatives Eike Poetsch, Werner Binder, Ulrich Finkenzeller, Bernhard Rieger 1995-08-29 $68,257,000
5403512 Vinyl compounds, and a liquid-crystalline medium Ekkehard Bartmann, Herbert Plach, Rudolf Eidenschink, Volker Reiffenrath, Detlef Pauluth +4 more 1995-04-04 $60,742,000
5292454 Trifluorotoluene compounds, and a liquid crystalline medium Hans-Adolf Kurmeier, Reinhard Hittich, Eike Poetsch, Herbert Plach, David Coates 1994-03-08 $39,503,000
5204477 Pyridine derivatives in liquid crystalline medium useful for electrooptical display elements Volker Reiffenrath, Eike Poetsch, Herbert Plach 1993-04-20 $23,834,000
5093026 Biphenylylethanes David I. Bishop, Stephen J. Lewis, David Coates, Simon Greenfield, Eike Poetsch +5 more 1992-03-03 $33,264,000