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Bruce E. Shanks — 15 Patents

GE: 9 patents #3,767 of 36,430Top 15%
FLFusion Lighting: 6 patents #8 of 47Top 20%
Chesterland, OH: #16 of 230 inventorsTop 7%
Ohio: #4,948 of 73,341 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Bruce E. Shanks has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in October 2002. Bruce E. Shanks ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Bruce E. Shanks in Chesterland, OH, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6469444 Lamp with improved color rendering Yongzhang Leng, James T. Dolan 2002-10-22
6316875 Electroded selenium lamp Douglas A. Kirkpatrick, Donald A. MacLennan 2001-11-13
6310443 Jacketed lamp bulb envelope Donald A. MacLennan, Brian Turner, Aleksandr Gitsevich, Gary K. Bass, James T. Dolan +8 more 2001-10-30
6252346 Metal matrix composite integrated lamp head Brian Turner, Kent Kipling, Malcolm E. Smith 2001-06-26
6181054 Lamp bulb with integral reflector Izrail Levin, Thomas Sumner 2001-01-30
5688064 Method and apparatus for coupling bulb stem to rotatable motor shaft 1997-11-18
5188451 One-piece spacer end cap for an elongated jacketed discharge lamp 1993-02-23 $9,338,000
4544998 Sealed lamp 1985-10-01 $5,551,000
4447862 Sealed beam lamp unit sealing surfaces 1984-05-08 $5,025,000
4425607 Sealed beam lamp unit 1984-01-10 $10,353,000
4425606 Sealed beam lamp unit Joseph P. Marella 1984-01-10 $10,353,000
4356539 Vehicle headlamp having an integral buggy spring mounting assembly 1982-10-26 $3,286,000
4322784 Vehicle headlamp having an integrally molded trim reference plane Dan R. Campbell 1982-03-30 $2,910,000
4318161 Snap in coupling assembly for a vehicle headlamp having a trim rim integral therewith 1982-03-02 $2,699,000
4300189 Sealed beam lamp unit having bonded terminals 1981-11-10 $3,060,000