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Stephen H. Cate — 7 Patents

TETownsend Engineering: 5 patents #14 of 77Top 20%
MPMarel Meat Processing: 1 patents #8 of 31Top 30%
Disney: 1 patents #4,015 of 6,686Top 65%
Johnston, IA: #63 of 247 inventorsTop 30%
Iowa: #2,264 of 15,303 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Stephen H. Cate has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Townsend Engineering. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in March 2017. Stephen H. Cate ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Stephen H. Cate in Johnston, IA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2006.peak 22000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012005: 1 patents20052006: 2 patents20062017: 2 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9596863 Automatic leg skinner Darin F. Dostal, Colin R. Hart, Gregory Anderson 2017-03-21
9545115 Automatic skinning device Matthew A. Bergman, Joseph A. Gross, Colin R. Hart, William A. Johnson, Ryan J. Rohe 2017-01-17
7033264 Method and means for filling natural casing sausages Marcellinus F. Ottow, Steven P. Hergott, Vincent L. Basile, II, Michael S. Simpson, David Hamblin +3 more 2006-04-25
6981912 Method and means for filling natural casing sausages Marcellinus F. Ottow, Steven P. Hergott, Vincent L. Basile, II, Michael S. Simpson, David Hamblin +3 more 2006-01-03
6855046 Method and means for filling natural casing sausages Marcellinus F. Ottow, Steven P. Hergott, Vincent L. Basile, II, Michael S. Simpson, David Hamblin +3 more 2005-02-15
6213863 Machine and method for automatic muscle fat and membrane removal Vincent L. Basile, II, Douglas McCloskey, Donald D. Holms 2001-04-10
6129625 Method of trimming a meat portion by ultrasonic and electronic analysis Douglas McCloskey 2000-10-10