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Robert C. Hedtke — 71 Patents

RORosemount: 71 patents #1 of 629Top 1%
Young America, MN: #1 of 8 inventorsTop 15%
Minnesota: #449 of 52,454 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #28,405 of 4,157,543Top 1%
71 Patents All Time
Robert C. Hedtke has been granted 71 US patents while listed as an inventor at Rosemount. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in November 2020. Robert C. Hedtke ranks #28,405 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.68%). Patent records list Robert C. Hedtke in Young America, MN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2017.peak 71987: 1 patents19871988: 1 patents1992: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 4 patents2003: 4 patents2005: 3 patents20052007: 3 patents2008: 5 patents2009: 4 patents20092010: 5 patents2011: 5 patents2012: 5 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 5 patents2015: 3 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 7 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 71 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10830689 Corrosion rate measurement using sacrificial probe 2020-11-10 $50,703,000
10823592 Process device with process variable measurement using image capture device 2020-11-03 $299,897,000
10190968 Corrosion rate measurement with multivariable sensor Charles R. Willcox 2019-01-29 $80,593,000
10107700 Process variable transmitter with process variable sensor carried by process gasket 2018-10-23 $143,208,000
9921120 Industrial process device utilizing piezoelectric transducer 2018-03-20 $148,002,000
9897505 Process variable measurement and local display with multiple ranges 2018-02-20 $75,132,000
9891161 Corrosion rate measurement Fred C. Sittler, Charles R. Willcox 2018-02-13 $35,817,000
9841338 High integrity process fluid pressure probe Fred C. Sittler 2017-12-12 $37,790,000
9841307 Multivariable guided wave radar probe 2017-12-12 $37,790,000
9752945 Coplanar process fluid pressure sensor module David A. Broden 2017-09-05 $19,064,000
9702743 Flowmeter for measuring flow of a process fluid through a conduit including upstream and downstream process variable sensors mounted on the pitot tube Gregory Robert Strom, David E. Wiklund 2017-07-11 $29,209,000
9588003 Isolator system for a pressure transmitter Eric Petersen 2017-03-07 $38,508,000
9568387 Thermal diagnostic for single-crystal process fluid pressure sensor 2017-02-14 $31,838,000
9551599 Normalized process dynamics John P. Miller 2017-01-24 $54,023,000
9470084 Method and apparatus for measuring fluid process variable in a well Liangju Lu 2016-10-18 $20,774,000
9473303 Method and system for product authentication Dale Scott Davis, John P. Schulte 2016-10-18 $20,774,000
9453407 Detection of position of a plunger in a well Nathan Len Wiater 2016-09-27 $146,245,000
9442031 High integrity process fluid pressure probe Fred C. Sittler 2016-09-13 $135,763,000
9157775 Flowmeter for measuring flow of a process fluid through a conduit including process variable sensors mounted on a pitot tube Gregory Robert Strom, David E. Wiklund 2015-10-13 $27,687,000
9086167 Pressure isolation manifold 2015-07-21 $18,747,000
9057659 Pressure transmitter with hydrogen getter 2015-06-16 $30,505,000
8898036 Process variable transmitter with acceleration sensor Fred C. Sittler 2014-11-25 $109,640,000
8813572 Ferrofluid modified fill fluid for pressure transmitters 2014-08-26 $50,997,000
8776608 Coplanar process fluid pressure sensor module David A. Broden 2014-07-15 $39,315,000
8752433 Differential pressure transmitter with pressure sensor 2014-06-17 $59,188,000