Inventor · Raleigh, NC, US

Samuel D. Griggs

86Patents
13h-index
16Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 29, 2001 → Apr 22, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6729102B2 Device for defining a handle in a tubular covering for a food product Performing Operations; Transporting 45 Expired
US6976346B2 Automatic netting packaging machine Performing Operations; Transporting 39 Expired
US6604338B1 Packaging device for attachment of clips to a continuously moving tube of casing Performing Operations; Transporting 32 Expired
US7313896B2 Automated clipping packaging systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 27 Expired
US7237369B2 Automated clipping packaging systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Expired
US7222469B2 Netting chutes with floors having channels for packaging products with clippers Performing Operations; Transporting 21 Expired
US7021026B2 Netting chutes for manual and/or automated clipping packaging apparatus Performing Operations; Transporting 21 Expired
US7386966B2 Automated packaging systems with associated automated pushers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Active
US7234287B2 Netting chutes with ribbed flooring for manual and/or automated clipping packaging apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 20 Expired
US7322163B2 Clipping packaging apparatus and methods Performing Operations; Transporting 19 Expired
US7392635B2 Breech loader packaging systems and associated breech loading chutes and methods Performing Operations; Transporting 15 Expired
US8006463B2 Rotating multi-clipper platform packaging systems Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 14 Active
US7430839B2 Embossed netting chutes for manual and/or automated clipping packaging apparatus Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US7143566B2 Clipper for automatic netting packaging machine Performing Operations; Transporting 11 Expired
US7356977B2 Automated clipping packaging systems with bottom-up cutting members and associated methods Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US7665278B2 Methods for automatically packaging objects Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Active
US8256191B2 Automated methods of packaging objects using a clipper Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US7739855B2 Automated clippers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Active
US7925379B2 Computer program products for packaging systems with breech loading chutes Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Active
US7955165B2 Methods of rucking using low profile ruckers capable of rucking fixed diameter coverings Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Active
US7975454B2 Breech loader packaging systems and associated methods Performing Operations; Transporting 9 Active
US7870707B2 Methods and computer program products suitable for packaging whole muscle Physics 9 Active
US8209945B2 Breech loader chutes for packaging systems Performing Operations; Transporting 9 Active
US7704129B2 Ruckers capable of rucking fixed diameter coverings and associated devices, methods, systems and computer program products Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US7775859B2 Low profile ruckers capable of rucking fixed diameter coverings and associated devices, methods, systems and computer program products Performing Operations; Transporting 8 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.