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John E. Mercer — 274 Patents

MTMerlin Technology: 196 patents #1 of 39Top 3%
DIDigital Control Incorporated: 44 patents #1 of 8Top 15%
FLFlowmole: 8 patents #2 of 17Top 15%
FIFlow Industries: 2 patents #5 of 25Top 20%
MMMarlboro Marketing: 1 patents #5 of 16Top 35%
MTMerlin Technologies: 1 patents #1 of 10Top 10%
Gig Harbor, WA: #1 of 257 inventorsTop 1%
Washington: #24 of 76,902 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #1,617 of 4,157,543Top 1%
274 Patents All Time
John E. Mercer has been granted 274 US patents while listed as an inventor at Merlin Technology. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in December 2025. John E. Mercer ranks #1,617 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.04%). Patent records list John E. Mercer in Gig Harbor, WA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 274 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12509223 Advanced emergency collective actuator with friction pull-off and method for a helicopter Mark Marvin, Derek Paul Vetter 2025-12-30
12241909 Mechanical shock resistant MEMS accelerometer arrangement, associated method, apparatus and system Albert W. Chau, Scott Phillips 2025-03-04
12188346 Advanced underground homing system, apparatus and method Guenter W. Brune, Albert W. Chau 2025-01-07
11971428 Mechanical shock resistant MEMS accelerometer arrangement, associated method, apparatus and system Albert W. Chau, Scott Phillips 2024-04-30
11906685 Distinguishing false signals in cable locating Albert W. Chau 2024-02-20
11820498 Advanced emergency collective actuator with friction pull-off and method for a helicopter Mark Marvin, Derek Paul Vetter 2023-11-21
11709179 Mechanical shock resistant MEMS accelerometer arrangement, associated method, apparatus and system Albert W. Chau, Scott Phillips 2023-07-25
11598198 Advanced underground homing system, apparatus and method Guenter W. Brune, Albert W. Chau 2023-03-07
11591078 Rotorcraft autopilot and methods Nicholas Albion, Mark Bartel, Marc Feifel, Mark Marvin 2023-02-28
11555352 Multimode steering and homing system, method and apparatus Timothy C. Shaw, Albert W. Chau 2023-01-17
11480446 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Guenter W. Brune, Albert W. Chau 2022-10-25
11230921 Communication protocol in directional drilling system, apparatus and method utilizing multi-bit data symbol transmission Rudolf Zeller, Gary Garrabrant, Timothy Bayliss 2022-01-25
11215635 Mechanical shock resistant MEMS accelerometer arrangement, associated method, apparatus and system Albert W. Chau, Scott Phillips 2022-01-04
11118442 Boring tool tracking fundamentally based on drill string length, pitch and roll James W. Burrows, Guenter W. Brune 2021-09-14
11035218 Advanced steering tool system, method and apparatus Guenter W. Brune, Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller 2021-06-15
11002623 Tension monitoring arrangement and method Albert W. Chau, Rudolf Zeller, Charles Yu Yat Tsang 2021-05-11
10954719 Multimode steering and homing system, method and apparatus Tim Shaw, Albert W. Chau 2021-03-23
10926872 Rotorcraft autopilot and methods Nicholas Albion, Mark Bartel, Marc Feifel, Mark Marvin 2021-02-23
10919622 Advanced emergency collective actuator with friction pull-off and method for a helicopter Mark Marvin, Derek Paul Vetter 2021-02-16
10901106 Distinguishing false signals in cable locating Albert W. Chau 2021-01-26
10895145 Advanced underground homing system, apparatus and method Guenter W. Brune, Albert W. Chau 2021-01-19
10859136 Drive mechanism and method 2020-12-08
10858095 Emergency collective actuator and method for a helicopter Mark Marvin 2020-12-08
10843796 Rotorcraft advanced autopilot control arrangement and methods Mark Marvin, Marc Feifel, Nicholas Albion 2020-11-24
10809099 Tracking positions of personnel, vehicles, and inanimate objects Rudolf Zeller, Guenter W. Brune, Albert W. Chau 2020-10-20