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Thomas O'Brien — 17 Patents

QMQuality Mat: 6 patents #3 of 8Top 40%
SRShale And Sands Oil Recovery: 5 patents #1 of 1Top 100%
UNUnknown: 3 patents #7,366 of 83,584Top 9%
UAUS Army: 1 patents #2,854 of 6,974Top 45%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Thomas O'Brien has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Quality Mat. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in July 2018. Thomas O'Brien ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Thomas O'Brien in Wānaka, TX, NZ.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1984 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2016.peak 51984: 2 patents19841992: 1 patents19922008: 1 patents20082011: 2 patents20112012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132016: 5 patents20162017: 2 patents20172018: 2 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10017903 Industrial mats having side protection Joe PENLAND, JR., Rustin B. Penland, Scott Calvert 2018-07-10
9909708 Preventing disturbances of underground conduit Joe PENLAND, JR., Scott Calvert 2018-03-06
9822493 Industrial mats having side protection Joe PENLAND, JR., Rustin B. Penland, Scott Calvert 2017-11-21
9663902 Environmentally resistant encapsulated mat construction Joe PENLAND, JR., Rustin B. Penland, Scott Calvert 2017-05-30
9486976 Mat construction having environmentally resistant skin Joe PENLAND, JR., Rustin B. Penland, Scott Calvert 2016-11-08
9476164 Industrial mat having side bumpers and lifting elements Joe PENLAND, JR., Rustin B. Penland, Scott Calvert 2016-10-25
9447547 Mat construction with environmentally resistant core Joe PENLAND, JR., Rustin B. Penland, Scott Calvert 2016-09-20
9315949 Mat construction with environmentally resistant core Joe PENLAND, JR., Rustin B. Penland, Scott Calvert 2016-04-19
9315951 Mat construction having environmentally resistant skin Joe PENLAND, JR., Rustin B. Penland, Scott Calvert 2016-04-19
8377165 Recovery of elements from hydrothermal products 2013-02-19
8186430 Method and system for extraction of hydrocarbons from oil sands 2012-05-29
7980304 Method and system for extraction of hydrocarbons from oil shale 2011-07-19
7931080 Method and system for extraction of hydrocarbons from oil sands 2011-04-26
7445041 Method and system for extraction of hydrocarbons from oil shale 2008-11-04
5099764 Propulsion unit fireable from an enclosure Malcolm K. Dale, David L. Wilson, Christopher Rinaldi 1992-03-31
4481973 Differential pressure energized circulating valve Edwin Thomas 1984-11-13
4427070 Circulating and pressure equalizing sub 1984-01-24