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William C. Fields — 4 Patents

SPSonoco Products: 2 patents #38 of 151Top 30%
LTLasersight Technologies: 1 patents #12 of 30Top 40%
Jamestown, CA: #2 of 9 inventorsTop 25%
California: #126,026 of 386,348 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,080,739 of 4,157,543Top 30%
4 Patents All Time
William C. Fields has been granted 4 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sonoco Products. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in March 1999. William C. Fields ranks #1,080,739 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 26.0%). Patent records list William C. Fields in Jamestown, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 1999Bar chart with a peak of 1 patents in 1989.peak 11989: 1 patents19891995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents19961999: 1 patents1999

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–4 of 4 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5881898 Open top drum having ribbed chime Patrick Irwin 1999-03-16 $10,600,000
5554335 Process for engraving ceramic surfaces using local laser vitrification Dan Fredrick, Steve Grannemann, Phyllis Hannan, Igor Lukashevsky 1996-09-10 $638,000
D359150 Drum John H. Malik, Patrick Irwin, Floy C. Jones 1995-06-06
4870789 Manufactured building adjustable leveling and support device Steven Clark 1989-10-03