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Thomas E. Gillespie — 8 Patents

UNUnipure: 3 patents #2 of 9Top 25%
SCSchaeffler: 1 patents #1,259 of 2,365Top 55%
Houston, TX: #2,918 of 21,073 inventorsTop 15%
Texas: #19,067 of 125,132 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Thomas E. Gillespie has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Unipure. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in March 2021. Thomas E. Gillespie ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Thomas E. Gillespie in Houston, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1999.peak 41999: 4 patents19992013: 1 patents20132014: 1 patents20142015: 1 patents20152021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10940979 Disposable beverage lid 2021-03-09
9016300 Articulated sun shade apparatus 2015-04-28
8863946 Container apparatus 2014-10-21
8512185 Switchable drive pulley with electrically actuated friction disc torque transfer mechanism Benjamin Baer 2013-08-20
5985137 Process to upgrade crude oils by destruction of naphthenic acids, removal of sulfur and removal of salts Ernest O. Ohsol, John W. Pinkerton 1999-11-16
5954949 Conversion of heavy petroleum oils to coke with a molten alkali metal hydroxide Ernest O. Ohsol, John W. Pinkerton, Thomas H. Laity 1999-09-21
5948242 Process for upgrading heavy crude oil production Ernest O. Ohsol, John W. Pinkerton, Thomas H. Laity 1999-09-07
5882506 Process for recovering high quality oil from refinery waste emulsions Ernest O. Ohsol, John W. Pinkerton 1999-03-16