Steven Greenfield, Certified Patent Agent (Certification # 58395)
1349 Foxpointe Dr.
Sycamore, IL 60178
815-991-9420
steve@greenfieldpatents.com

Steven Greenfield

See From Patents Come Products for a list of products with patent applications I've filed.

 

WORK AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

 

  • Research and Development
  • Product Development
  • Consumer Products
  • Product Manufacturing
  • Process Development and Engineering
  • Intellectual Property Management
  • Patent Analysis and Mapping
  • Patent Searches

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    TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

     

  • Web lamination
  • Adhesives
  • Nonwoven materials and processes
  • Polymers and plastics
  • Paper materials, paper chemicals, paper testing, and papermaking processes
  • Paper converting
  • Lotions and softener formulations and applications
  • Diapers
  • Super absorbent chemicals
  • Tissue and towel products
  • Kepner Trego problem solving
  • Statistics and quality

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    EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY

    CONWED PLASTICS , Minneapolis, MN
    2005 Senior Development Engineer

    LITTLE RAPIDS CORPORATION , Green Bay, Wisconsin
    2000 - 2004 Product Improvement Engineer

    POTLATCH CORPORATION , Cloquet, Minnesota
    1992 - 2000 Senior Research and Development Engineer

    JAMES RIVER CORPORATION , Neenah, Wisconsin
    1987 - 1992 Research Scientist

    JOHNSON AND JOHNSON BABY PRODUCTS COMPANY , Skillman, New Jersey
    1982 - 1987 Senior Process Development Engineer

    SCOTT PAPER COMPANY , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    1979 - 1982 Senior Project Engineer

    ST. REGIS PAPER COMPANY, West Nyack, New York
    1976 - 1979 Development Engineer

     

    EDUCATION

    MBA Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey 1987
    MS Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 1976
    BS Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 1973

     

    PATENTS

    No. 6,368,539 "Methods of Embossing Materials," 4/9/02
    No. D453,421 "Embossed Paper," 2/12/02
    No. D441,54 1 "Paper Towel," 5/8/01
    No. 5,980,919 "Emollient Composition and Methods of Application to a Substrate by Electrostatic Spraying," 11/9/99

     

    LANGUAGES

    English and some French

     

    PAST & PRESENT ACTIVITIES

    Councilor for local chapter of SCORE
    Organizer of Brown County Inventors and Entrepreneurs Network
    Member of Wisconsin Inventors Network
    Active with Wisconsin Entrepreneurs Network