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James Waldecker — 15 Patents

Ford: 12 patents #1,503 of 17,473Top 9%
ExxonMobil: 3 patents #3,063 of 10,161Top 35%
Plymouth, MI: #84 of 1,052 inventorsTop 8%
Michigan: #5,942 of 86,293 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
James Waldecker has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in October 2020. James Waldecker ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list James Waldecker in Plymouth, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2016.peak 32009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents20102011: 1 patents20112013: 1 patents20132015: 2 patents20152016: 3 patents20162017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents20182020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10811693 Fuel cell oxidation reduction reaction catalyst Kerrie K. Gath, Jun Yang, Chunchuan Xu, Patrick Pietrasz, Richard E. Soltis +3 more 2020-10-20 $6,276,000
10790546 Current bypass device for proton exchange membrane fuel cell system Chunchuan Xu, Jun Yang, Feng Li, George Steve Saloka, Mark S. Sulek +1 more 2020-09-29 $6,689,000
10003081 Catalyst assembly and method of making the same Jun Yang, Shinichi Hirano, Richard E. Soltis, Andrew Robert Drews, Andrea Pulskamp 2018-06-19 $4,905,000
9640802 Catalyst assembly and method of making the same Jun Yang, Shinichi Hirano, Richard E. Soltis, Andrew Robert Drews, Andrea Pulskamp 2017-05-02 $4,343,000
9595720 Electrode with catalyst segmentation 2017-03-14 $10,022,000
9468909 Metal oxide stabilized platinum-based ORR catalyst Jun Yang, Chunchuan Xu, Patrick Pietrasz, Kerrie K. Gath, Benjamin Pence +3 more 2016-10-18 $7,179,000
9461311 Microporous layer for a fuel cell Zijie Lu, Michael Allen DeBolt, Donald Paul Alessi 2016-10-04 $6,516,000
9236622 Fuel cell system with wetness sensor Tie Wang, Chendong Huang, James A. Adams, Shinichi Hirano, George Steve Saloka +2 more 2016-01-12 $12,053,000
9017838 Spinning electrode fuel cell Ron Brost, William Hubert Schank 2015-04-28 $11,159,000
8945790 Microporous layer structures and gas diffusion layer assemblies in proton exchange membrane fuel cells Zijie Lu 2015-02-03 $15,235,000
8546288 Substrate selection for a catalyst Andrea Pulskamp, Shinichi Hirano 2013-10-01 $16,091,000
8057664 Process for reducing bromine index of hydrocarbon feedstocks Stephen H. Brown, Khavinet Lourvanij 2011-11-15 $157,580,000
7815793 Process for reducing bromine index of hydrocarbon feedstock Stephen H. Brown, Khavinet Lourvanij 2010-10-19 $87,946,000
7744750 Process for reducing Bromine Index of hydrocarbon feedstocks Stephen H. Brown, Khavinet Lourvanij 2010-06-29 $101,397,000
7611791 Spirally-wound fuel cell assembly Ron Brost, William Hubert Schank, Bruce Carvell Blakemore 2009-11-03 $41,142,000