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John S. Hepp — 14 Patents

SESercel: 8 patents #5 of 149Top 4%
TGThe Whitehall Group: 5 patents #1 of 13Top 8%
Leander, TX: #64 of 487 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #10,699 of 125,132 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
John S. Hepp has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sercel. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in July 2022. John S. Hepp ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list John S. Hepp in Leander, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11385367 Dual axis geophones for pressure/velocity sensing streamers forming a triple component streamer Mike Maples 2022-07-12
10330806 Dual axis geophones for pressure/velocity sensing streamers forming a triple component streamer Mike Maples 2019-06-25
9791579 Dual axis geophones for pressure/velocity sensing streamers forming a triple component streamer Mike Maples 2017-10-17
9733370 Dual axis geophones for pressure/velocity sensing streamers forming a triple component streamer Mike Maples 2017-08-15
9651575 Method and apparatus for testing a sensor 2017-05-16
9464951 Method and apparatus for electrical gap setting for a piezoelectric pressure sensor 2016-10-11
9322942 Streamer for seismic prospection comprising tilt compensation of directional sensors Gaetan Mellier, Mike Maples, Simon Leboeuf, Isabelle Sellin 2016-04-26
6483775 Bird communications system in a marine seismic cable James Spackman, Mike Maples 2002-11-19
5777954 Hydrophone streamer having water-based fill fluid and method of manufacture thereof 1998-07-07
5631874 Telemetry transmission protocol for towed hydrophone streamer Robert H. Mastin, Deane D. Fletcher 1997-05-20 $828,000
5450369 Telemetry transmission protocol for towed hydrophone streamer Robert H. Mastin, Deane D. Fletcher 1995-09-12 $1,062,000
5412621 Encapsulated hydrophone element for towed hydrophone array 1995-05-02 $772,000
5408442 Hydrophone element with filter circuit 1995-04-18 $749,000
5400298 Towed hydrophone streamer with distributed electronics housings 1995-03-21 $553,000