Michael Gerstner — 17 Patents at Caterpillar

Michael Gerstner has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Caterpillar. The first was granted in 1986 and the most recent in September 2025. Michael Gerstner ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Michael Gerstner in Peoria, IL, US.

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Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12429005	Systems and methods for providing a diesel-methanol emulsion for direct injection engines	Daniel R. Baldwin, Robert Graumüller, Eric Lee Schroeder	2025-09-30
12215640	Systems and methods for purging fuel in a combustion engine	Arnold Myoungjin Kim	2025-02-04
11990302	Circuit breaker, removable display, and electronic trip unit for a circuit breaker	Bernd Schwinn, Anand Venkatramani	2024-05-21
11898524	Bidirectional purging fuel from a fuel delivery system	Daniel R. Baldwin	2024-02-13	$57,373,000
11898506	Two stage mixed fuel sensing system	Daniel R. Baldwin, Robert Graumüller	2024-02-13	$57,373,000
11831140	System, circuit breaker, display unit and display holder	Anand Venkatramani, Bernd Schwinn, Martin Muellhofer	2023-11-28
11181563	Circuit-breaker and mobile device	Marco Bruell, Christoph Boerzsoenyi, Ilka Jakubowski	2021-11-23
10319122	Display unit and installation for distributing electrical energy with a corresponding display unit	Rainer Hauser, Bernd Schwinn	2019-06-11
9859688	Remanufactured sparkplug and sparkplug remanufacturing method	Timothy S. Graham, Dianqi Fang	2018-01-02	$30,490,000
9638154	Common rail fuel pump control system	—	2017-05-02	$20,722,000
9234488	Quill connector for fuel system and method	—	2016-01-12	$8,813,000
9228551	Quill tube protection feature	—	2016-01-05	$7,633,000
9133806	Shutdown pressure relief valve for common rail fuel system	—	2015-09-15	$16,719,000
8622046	Fuel system having accumulators and flow limiters	Kenneth C. Adams, Benjamin R. Tower, Bharath Chandrashekar, Zhenyu Li	2014-01-07	$13,108,000
8291889	Pressure control in low static leak fuel system	Scott F. Shafer, Jeffrey DePayva, Daniel R. Puckett, Amy Johanson, Kenneth C. Adams +4 more	2012-10-23	$36,830,000
7980224	Two wire intensified common rail fuel system	Stephen R. Lewis, Bradley E. Bartley, Avinash R. Manubolu, Shriprasad Lakhapati, Dianqi Fang +2 more	2011-07-19	$29,587,000
4576391	Rollable pallet assembly and caster device	—	1986-03-18

Michael Gerstner — 17 Patents

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