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William E. Ellington — 8 Patents

Shell Oil Compny: 6 patents #511 of 4,423Top 15%
Houston, TX: #2,918 of 21,073 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #19,067 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
William E. Ellington has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Shell Oil Compny. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in September 2014. William E. Ellington ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list William E. Ellington in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1988.peak 21987: 1 patents19871988: 2 patents19881989: 2 patents19891990: 1 patents19902013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8823937 Products and methods for identifying rock samples Jacob Cecil Moore, Mark Smith, Grigory Leonidovich Dubinsky 2014-09-02
8416413 Products and methods for identifying rock samples Jacob Cecil Moore, Mark Smith, Grigory Leonidovich Dubinsky 2013-04-09
RE33349 Controlling sulfide scavenger content of drilling fluid Stephen D. Matza, Henry C. Fleming, III 1990-09-25
4840910 Controlling sulfide scavenger content of drilling fluid Stephen D. Matza, Henry C. Fleming, III 1989-06-20
4805708 Controlling sulfide scavenger content of oil-based drilling fluid Stephen D. Matza, Henry C. Fleming, III 1989-02-21
4787983 Method for determining the amount of oil in a sponge core Rocco DiFoggio, Kailash Dangayach 1988-11-29
4785661 Method for analyzing solvent extracted sponge core Clayton L. Calkin 1988-11-22
4658914 Controlling sulfide scavenger content of drilling fluid Stephen D. Matza, Henry C. Fleming, III 1987-04-21