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Aaron Ness — 10 Patents

Caterpillar: 10 patents #572 of 8,398Top 7%
Battle Ground, IN: #5 of 16 inventorsTop 35%
Indiana: #3,690 of 33,936 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #481,000 of 4,157,543Top 15%
10 Patents All Time
Aaron Ness has been granted 10 US patents while listed as an inventor at Caterpillar. The first was granted in 2016 and the most recent in April 2025. Aaron Ness ranks #481,000 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 11.6%). Patent records list Aaron Ness in Battle Ground, IN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2016 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2024.peak 32016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents20192022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents20232024: 3 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–10 of 10 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12264636 Low compression natural gas engine piston bowl for improved combustion stability Andrew J. Loetz, John R. Brubaker, Christopher L. Batta 2025-04-01
12146452 Piston and engine system using same Andrew J. Loetz, Adam Joseph Clute, Sri Harsha Uddanda 2024-11-19 $236,109,000
12037961 Piston optimized for combustion flame speed and compression ratio in engine system Andrew J. Loetz, Adam Joseph Clute, Sri Harsha Uddanda 2024-07-16 $122,287,000
11891961 Gaseous fuel engine system and operating strategy for limiting crankcase fuel accumulation Jaswinder Singh, Eric Lee Schroeder, Adam Joseph Clute 2024-02-06 $99,332,000
11840983 Low compression natural gas engine piston bowl for improved combustion stability Andrew J. Loetz, John R. Brubaker, Christopher L. Batta 2023-12-12 $173,763,000
11536218 Method and system for a cylinder liner Christopher L. Batta, Zachary Jacobs 2022-12-27 $120,476,000
10400663 Piston bowl for improved combustion stability Jeff Howard, Sri Harsha Uddanda, Lucas Burger 2019-09-03 $20,052,000
9822729 Engine piston having a notched top land John R. Brubaker 2017-11-21 $39,069,000
9429101 Combustion engine piston and engine using same Robert Nacke, Stuart Niese, Fabio Menotti, Chris Hoops, Andrew Gaarder 2016-08-30 $33,887,000
9228531 Piston having combustion bowl and engine using same Scott P. Coulier, Thomas Kammerdiener, Jonathan Kilkenny 2016-01-05 $7,633,000