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Robert Michael Echols — 4 Patents

STSeagate Technology: 2 patents #2,094 of 4,722Top 45%
PepsiCo: 2 patents #557 of 1,581Top 40%
Copper Canyon, TX: #3 of 8 inventorsTop 40%
Texas: #33,915 of 125,132 inventorsTop 30%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
Robert Michael Echols has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Seagate Technology. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in March 2010. Robert Michael Echols ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list Robert Michael Echols in Copper Canyon, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2010Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1989.peak 21989: 2 patents19892004: 1 patents20042010: 1 patents2010

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7682879 Edge coating a microelectronic device Michael R. Fabry 2010-03-23 $16,153,000
6680436 Reflow encapsulant Antai Xu, Eng Siong David Yeh, Michael J. Peterson 2004-01-20 $11,457,000
4889241 Discharge chute with variable slope bottom for fragile article sorting system Kevin C. Cogan 1989-12-26 $37,961,000
4831922 Automated system for processing whole potatoes Kevin C. Cogan, Tina T. Dierl 1989-05-23 $60,902,000