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David E. Rhodes — 13 Patents

SDSonoco Development: 12 patents #15 of 354Top 5%
SPSonoco Products: 1 patents #75 of 151Top 50%
Hartsville, SC: #8 of 141 inventorsTop 6%
South Carolina: #1,078 of 15,501 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
David E. Rhodes has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sonoco Development. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in July 2025. David E. Rhodes ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list David E. Rhodes in Hartsville, SC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12364344 Sustainable point-of-purchase display with re-pulpable components Kevin Manly Kelley 2025-07-22
11981490 Moving system for cores and tubes Kevin Manly Kelley, Neil Roland Davis 2024-05-14 $12,142,000
11858769 Web splice Xiaokai Niu 2024-01-02 $13,735,000
11787103 Core with improved chuck interaction Neil Roland Davis, John F. Auten, Michael Lee Thompson, Kevin Manly Kelley, Xiaokai Niu +1 more 2023-10-17 $24,134,000
11279077 Core with improved chuck interaction Neil Roland Davis, John F. Auten, Michael Lee Thompson, Kevin Manly Kelley, Xiaokai Niu +1 more 2022-03-22 $27,716,000
9212021 Winding cores for material rolls having high roll strain energy, and method for making same John F. Auten, Yiming Wang, Wim van de Camp, Terry Gerhardt, Lawrence E. Renck 2015-12-15 $6,269,000
8329268 Paper-based plant pot, and blank for making same Susan Bell, Wim van de Camp, William David Decker, Bruce A. Moon, Tony F. Rummage +1 more 2012-12-11 $5,096,000
8228260 Structure having an antenna incorporated therein Scott William Huffer, Lawrence E. Renck, Tony F. Rummage 2012-07-24 $11,469,000
8084108 Core having enhanced ID stiffness and method for manufacturing the same Xiaokai Niu, Neil Roland Davis 2011-12-27 $10,535,000
7842362 Water-resistant wound paperboard tube Tom Kim, Charles W. Lounsbury, Jr., Garrett Smith, Johannes van de Camp 2010-11-30 $6,349,000
6719242 Composite core Arnold B. Floyd, Jr., Gerald Lee Lane, JR. 2004-04-13 $4,394,000
6228205 Apparatus and method for forming a splice in advancing web of paper Willis Augustus Usher, Jr. 2001-05-08 $19,279,000
5106356 Method and apparatus for the manufacture of paperboard tubes having controlled outside diameter George E. Lennon, Philip G. Hart 1992-04-21 $5,046,000