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Eric A. Benham — 7 Patents

CUCummins: 6 patents #267 of 2,217Top 15%
Columbus, IN: #254 of 1,378 inventorsTop 20%
Indiana: #5,329 of 33,936 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Eric A. Benham has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cummins. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in March 2025. Eric A. Benham ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Eric A. Benham in Columbus, IN, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2017.peak 22017: 2 patents20172019: 1 patents20192023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12247538 Adaptable barrels for fuel injection Karthik Sethuraman, Richard E. Duncan 2025-03-11
12203457 Fuel pump assembly Donald J. Benson, Richard E. Duncan 2025-01-21
12173675 Pump assemblies with barrel guiding features Karthik Sethuraman, Donald J. Benson, Michael A. Lucas, Richard E. Duncan 2024-12-24 $31,151,000
11719207 Pump plunger assembly for improved pump efficiency Donald J. Benson, Bela Doszpoly, Ahmad M. Sabri, Richard E. Duncan 2023-08-08 $32,833,000
10436164 Tappet roller retaining approach Chin-Pei Wang, Matthew B. State, Justin Gregory Wenger, Alexander E. Lesin, Kyle James Brewer 2019-10-08 $26,818,000
9677496 System and method of injector control for multipulse fuel injection David Michael Carey 2017-06-13 $17,481,000
9644590 Fuel injection pressure pulsation dampening system Paul Peavler, Donald J. Benson, Paul Douglas Free, Jeffrey C. Huang, C. Edward Morris 2017-05-09 $20,932,000