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Nigel Grinter — 12 Patents

PTPraxair Technology: 5 patents #193 of 1,036Top 20%
SISp Industries: 3 patents #3 of 25Top 15%
ICICI: 2 patents #677 of 2,189Top 35%
PRPromega: 1 patents #195 of 281Top 70%
Buffalo Grove, IL: #103 of 836 inventorsTop 15%
Illinois: #7,339 of 84,256 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Nigel Grinter has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Praxair Technology. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in May 2017. Nigel Grinter ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Nigel Grinter in Buffalo Grove, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1986 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2015.peak 31986: 1 patents19861988: 1 patents19882009: 1 patents20092012: 2 patents20122014: 2 patents20142015: 3 patents20152016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9651305 Lyophilization system and method Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Robert Sever, Balazs Hunek, Melinda Lee Verdone 2017-05-16 $34,826,000
9453675 Method of inducing nucleation of a material Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Robert Sever, Balazs Hunek, Melinda Lee Verdone 2016-09-27 $90,345,000
9200836 Lyophilization system and method Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Robert Sever, Balazs Hunek, Melinda Lee Verdone 2015-12-01 $44,676,000
9181521 Bioreactor with upward flowing impeller system for use in a mammalian cell culture process Alan T. Y. Cheng, Ying Zhou, Amitabh Gupta, Balazs Hunek 2015-11-10 $28,740,000
8956566 System and method for virus inactivation Peter Latham, Robert Sever 2015-02-17
8794013 Method and system for nucleation control in a controlled rate freezer (CRF) Ying Zhou, Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Alan Cheng, Yeu-Chuan Simon Ho, Robert Sever 2014-08-05 $17,058,000
8793895 Lyophilization system and method Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III, Robert Sever, Balazs Hunek, Melinda Lee Verdone 2014-08-05 $17,058,000
8241904 System and method for controlling a mammalian cell culture process Alan T. Y. Cheng, Ying Zhou, Balazs Hunek, Amitabh Gupta 2012-08-14 $46,108,000
8178318 Method for controlling pH, osmolality and dissolved carbon dioxide levels in a mammalian cell culture process to enhance cell viability and biologic product yield Alan T. Y. Cheng, Ying Zhou, Amitabh Gupta, Balazs Hunek 2012-05-15 $91,716,000
7560232 Methods of capturing, detecting and quantifying RNA:DNA hybrids and a modified RNase H useful therein Richard Douglas Carter, Martin Rosenburg, Daniel Robert Gentry 2009-07-14
4784956 Vector — 1988-11-15 $2,277,000
4590162 Transposable cloning vector — 1986-05-20 $1,231,000

Frequent Collaborators

Balazs Hunek7 shared
Robert Sever6 shared
Theodore Hall Gasteyer, III5 shared
Melinda Lee Verdone4 shared
Ying Zhou4 shared
Alan T. Y. Cheng3 shared

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