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Michael S. Simpson — 14 Patents

TETownsend Engineering: 11 patents #9 of 77Top 15%
STStork Townsend: 2 patents #15 of 44Top 35%
DIDec International: 1 patents #22 of 60Top 40%
Norwalk, IA: #4 of 30 inventorsTop 15%
Iowa: #987 of 15,303 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Michael S. Simpson has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Townsend Engineering. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in January 2013. Michael S. Simpson ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Michael S. Simpson in Norwalk, IA, US.

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Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8342916 Meat processing assembly Kenneth B. Arnote 2013-01-01
7992490 Automatic by-pass control system for meat injection machine and method of using same Daniel W. Pfeffer, Craig A. Smiens 2011-08-09
7033264 Method and means for filling natural casing sausages Stephen H. Cate, Marcellinus F. Ottow, Steven P. Hergott, Vincent L. Basile, II, David Hamblin +3 more 2006-04-25
6981912 Method and means for filling natural casing sausages Stephen H. Cate, Marcellinus F. Ottow, Steven P. Hergott, Vincent L. Basile, II, David Hamblin +3 more 2006-01-03
6855046 Method and means for filling natural casing sausages Stephen H. Cate, Marcellinus F. Ottow, Steven P. Hergott, Vincent L. Basile, II, David Hamblin +3 more 2005-02-15
6497176 Meat injection machine Vincent L. Basile, II, Craig A. Smiens, Daniel W. Pfeffer 2002-12-24
6290591 Method and apparatus for determining the number of looped sausages for deposit on a smokestick Steven P. Hergott, Vincent L. Basile, II, James Myers, Marcelinus Franciscus Ottow 2001-09-18
6277018 Method and means making and conveying an extruded sausage strand Daniel J. Cody, David Hamblin, Steven P. Hergott, Wendell J. Holl, David C. Nordby +1 more 2001-08-21
6086469 Method and means for conveying and processing an extruded sausage strand Daniel J. Cody, David Hamblin, Steven P. Hergott, Wendell J. Holl, David C. Nordby +1 more 2000-07-11
6066035 Automatic control for terminating the filling of a sausage casing, and method of use thereof Steven P. Hergott 2000-05-23
6056636 Method and means for making and conveying an extruded sausage strand Daniel J. Cody, David Hamblin, Steven P. Hergott, Wendell J. Holl, David C. Nordby +1 more 2000-05-02
5971842 Meat emulsion pump control system for meat encasing machine, and method of use thereof David Hamblin, Steven P. Hergott, Brent M. Veldkamp 1999-10-26
5951391 Method and means for linking sausage Steven P. Hergott, Rudolph P. Enklaar 1999-09-14
5921857 Meat emulsion pump control system for meat encasing machine, and method of use thereof 1999-07-13