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Mark E. Thomas — 32 Patents

WHWhirlpool: 25 patents #140 of 3,654Top 4%
AOAol: 3 patents #521 of 1,465Top 40%
Verizon: 2 patents #2,326 of 6,238Top 40%
OAOath: 1 patents #403 of 1,117Top 40%
BLBritish Petroleum Company Limited: 1 patents #40 of 133Top 35%
Corydon, IN: #1 of 40 inventorsTop 3%
Indiana: #706 of 33,936 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #110,428 of 4,157,543Top 3%
32 Patents All Time
Mark E. Thomas has been granted 32 US patents while listed as an inventor at Whirlpool. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in March 2023. Mark E. Thomas ranks #110,428 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.7%). Patent records list Mark E. Thomas in Corydon, IN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2016.peak 71983: 1 patents19832012: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 7 patents20162017: 6 patents2018: 3 patents20182019: 5 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–32 of 32 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9251258 Client application fingerprinting based on analysis of client requests William Salusky 2016-02-02 $136,404,000
9182157 On-door ice maker cooling Patrick J. Boarman, Gregory Gene Hortin 2015-11-10 $15,385,000
9151524 Refrigerator with icemaker chilled by thermoelectric device cooled by fresh food compartment air Patrick J. Boarman, Brian K. Culley, Gregory Gene Hortin 2015-10-06 $17,611,000
9115918 Refrigerator with icemaker chilled by thermoelectric device cooled by fresh food compartment air Patrick J. Boarman, Brian K. Culley, Gregory Gene Hortin 2015-08-25 $6,762,000
8694608 Client application fingerprinting based on analysis of client requests William Salusky 2014-04-08 $165,060,000
8244799 Client application fingerprinting based on analysis of client requests William Salusky 2012-08-14 $137,288,000
4382901 Mass transfer equipment 1983-05-10 $4,591,000