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Richard E. Dilgren — 7 Patents

Shell Oil Compny: 7 patents #428 of 4,423Top 10%
Houston, TX: #3,335 of 21,073 inventorsTop 20%
Texas: #21,608 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Richard E. Dilgren has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Shell Oil Compny. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in February 1987. Richard E. Dilgren ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Richard E. Dilgren in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 1987Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1986.peak 31983: 1 patents19831984: 1 patents19841985: 1 patents19851986: 3 patents19861987: 1 patents1987

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
4643256 Steam-foaming surfactant mixtures which are tolerant of divalent ions Kenneth B. Owens 1987-02-17
4601336 Process for selecting a steam foam forming surfactant Kenneth B. Owens 1986-07-22
4597442 Reservoir preflushing process for increasing the rate of surfactant transport in displacing oil with injected steam and steam-foaming surfactant Hon Chung Lau, George J. Hirasaki 1986-07-01
4562727 Olefin sulfonate-improved steam foam drive Kenneth B. Owens 1986-01-07
4532993 Selective steam foam soak oil recovery process Paul B. Ritter, Jr. 1985-08-06
4488976 Olefin sulfonate-improved steam foam drive Kenneth B. Owens 1984-12-18 $20,213,000
4393937 Olefin sulfonate-improved steam foam drive Kenneth B. Owens 1983-07-19 $27,585,000