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Terry E. Franks — 7 Patents

SDSquare D: 7 patents #47 of 756Top 7%
Leicester, NC: #1 of 17 inventorsTop 6%
North Carolina: #7,540 of 45,564 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Terry E. Franks has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Square D. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in March 1990. Terry E. Franks ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Terry E. Franks in Leicester, NC, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
4911517 Means for clamping fiber optical cable Edwin R. Newell 1990-03-27 $895,000
4903337 Fiber optic transceiver Edwin R. Newell, Jinde Liu 1990-02-20 $5,538,000
4898445 Fiber optic switching system Edwin R. Newell 1990-02-06 $5,189,000
4785240 Proximity switch Edwin R. Newell, Thomas R. Phelps, J. Michael Boozer 1988-11-15 $5,672,000
4578732 Ground fault circuit interrupter including snap-acting contacts Charles Draper 1986-03-25 $5,751,000
4574260 Snap acting solenoid operated reset latch mechanism 1986-03-04 $5,820,000
4463398 Intrinsically safe pilot light James M. Boozer, Richard C. Rothweiler 1984-07-31 $1,923,000