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Alan Richards — 8 Patents

SDSonoco Development: 3 patents #84 of 354Top 25%
CSColorado Memory Systems: 2 patents #2 of 11Top 20%
ILIlx Lightwave: 1 patents #6 of 12Top 50%
HP: 1 patents #11,359 of 7,018Top 165%
Loveland, CO: #145 of 931 inventorsTop 20%
Colorado: #5,915 of 40,980 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Alan Richards has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sonoco Development. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in November 2024. Alan Richards ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Alan Richards in Loveland, CO, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12140348 Refrigeration evaporators and systems 2024-11-12
D536250 Membrane lid having a recessed portion 2007-02-06
D536251 Membrane lid having a recessed portion 2007-02-06
D536252 Membrane lid having a recessed portion 2007-02-06
6608685 Tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer, and associated methods Christopher Wood, Jason Ensher 2003-08-19
5331490 Tape head fine positioning system for a tape backup drive William Godette, Helmuth O. Kroog, Kevin L. Miller 1994-07-19 $13,863,000
5222003 Optical tape position sensing system for magnetic tape media in computer memory backup devices Kevin L. Miller, James A. Imthurn 1993-06-22
4819092 Apparatus for writing signal density information on a magnetic medium 1989-04-04