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Wayne P. Messing — 6 Patents

SOSomanetics: 4 patents #7 of 16Top 45%
EDEnergy Conversion Devices: 2 patents #85 of 231Top 40%
Troy, MI: #532 of 2,712 inventorsTop 20%
Michigan: #15,817 of 86,293 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Wayne P. Messing has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Somanetics. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in May 1999. Wayne P. Messing ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Wayne P. Messing in Troy, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 1999Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1980.peak 11980: 1 patents19801982: 1 patents19821993: 1 patents19931997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents1999

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5902235 Optical cerebral oximeter Gary D. Lewis, Melville C. Stewart, II 1999-05-11 $609,000
5795292 Method for improving signal-to-noise in clinical spectrometric procedures Gary D. Lewis, Oleg Gonopolskiy, Richard S. Scheuing 1998-08-18 $373,000
5697367 Specially grounded sensor for clinical spectrophotometric procedures Gary D. Lewis, Oleg Gonopolskiy, Richard S. Scheuing 1997-12-16 $616,000
5217013 Patient sensor for optical cerebral oximeter and the like Gary D. Lewis, Peter Klose 1993-06-08 $788,000
4346449 Data storage and retrieval system Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Peter Klose 1982-08-24 $887,000
4205387 Data storage and retrieval system Stanford R. Ovshinsky, Peter Klose 1980-05-27 $855,000