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Alain Besson — 12 Patents

TOTotal: 8 patents #1 of 28Top 4%
BHBaker Hughes Holdings: 3 patents #1,366 of 4,186Top 35%
DSDiamant Boart Stratabit S.A.: 1 patents #6 of 20Top 30%
DIDiamond Products International: 1 patents #6 of 11Top 55%
GSGec Alsthom Electromecanique S.A.: 1 patents #7 of 25Top 30%
HUHutchinson: 1 patents #356 of 442Top 85%
Sartrouville, FR: #5 of 133 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Alain Besson has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Total. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in June 2002. Alain Besson ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Alain Besson in Sartrouville, FR.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2002Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 1994.peak 31993: 1 patents19931994: 3 patents19941995: 1 patents19951996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 2 patents20002002: 1 patents2002

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6401843 Drilling head with a cone rock bit Patrick Fayaud, Bernard Tissier, Pierre Lecour 2002-06-11 $25,406,000
6102142 Drilling tool with shock absorbers Robert Delwiche, Pierre Lecour 2000-08-15 $65,484,000
6068072 Cutting element Gary M. Thigpen, Coy M. Fielder 2000-05-30
5957227 Blade-equipped drilling tool, incorporating secondary cutting edges and passages designed for the removal of evacuated material Kenneth Blackwood 1999-09-28
5823277 Cutting edge for monobloc drilling tools Robert Delwiche 1998-10-20 $21,978,000
5592995 Earth-boring bit having shear-cutting heel elements Danny E. Scott, Rudolf Carl Pessier, Matthew R. Isbell, Nigel Charles Meany 1997-01-14 $13,579,000
5562171 Anti-balling drill bit Rudolf Carl Pessier 1996-10-08 $31,833,000
5397954 Elastic support device for stator winding end turns 1995-03-14
5301762 Drilling tool fitted with self-sharpening cutting edges 1994-04-12 $4,629,000
5293946 Divergent fluid nozzle for drilling tool Bernard Ponineau 1994-03-15 $4,424,000
5282512 Drilling tool with rotating conical rollers Patrick Toutain 1994-02-01 $4,820,000
5230389 Fluidic oscillator drill bit 1993-07-27 $4,967,000