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Robert W. Meyer — 11 Patents

WHWhirlpool: 6 patents #721 of 3,654Top 20%
SDSteelcase Development: 3 patents #140 of 472Top 30%
CCCombustion Concepts: 1 patents #3 of 8Top 40%
HOHolcroft: 1 patents #4 of 11Top 40%
Novi, MI: #220 of 1,560 inventorsTop 15%
Michigan: #8,574 of 86,293 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Robert W. Meyer has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Whirlpool. The first was granted in 1980 and the most recent in March 2011. Robert W. Meyer ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Robert W. Meyer in Novi, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1980 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2001.peak 21980: 1 patents19801989: 1 patents19892000: 1 patents20002001: 2 patents20012003: 1 patents20032004: 2 patents20042005: 2 patents20052011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7913419 Non-tumble clothes dryer Donald M. Tomasi, Matthew D. Rhodes, Richard A. Sunshine 2011-03-29 $5,843,000
6973740 Stationary clothes drying apparatus 2005-12-13 $16,348,000
6860032 Stationary clothes drying apparatus with jet nozzles 2005-03-01 $9,233,000
6784404 System for controlling the duration of a self-clean cycle in an oven Paul Karl Krueger, Erin M. May, Richard L. Baker, Steven Baas, Anthony Jenkins +2 more 2004-08-31 $8,858,000
6705545 Quick color change powder paint system Jerome Sroka, Steven C. Martin, Patrick J. Fingleton, Eugene C. Jager 2004-03-16 $5,109,000
6545251 Cooking oven Riccardo Allera, Giovanni Franzetti, Marco Maritan, Salvatore Sanna, Massimo Maroni +5 more 2003-04-08 $23,046,000
6315214 Method for controlling powder paint system Patrick J. Fingleton, Eugene C. Jager 2001-11-13 $4,375,000
6232584 System for controlling a self cleaning oven having catalyst temperature control 2001-05-15 $39,610,000
6112999 Powder paint system and control thereof Patrick J. Fingleton, Eugene C. Jager 2000-09-05 $3,064,000
4884967 Steel reheating furnace 1989-12-05
4225121 Energy efficient heat-treating furnace system Charles Lippert 1980-09-30