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Charles Ray Smith — 14 Patents

GE: 13 patents #2,462 of 36,430Top 7%
HSHaier Us Appliance Solutions: 1 patents #502 of 889Top 60%
Simpsonville, KY: #2 of 18 inventorsTop 15%
Kentucky: #749 of 11,577 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Charles Ray Smith has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in August 2016. Charles Ray Smith ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Charles Ray Smith in Simpsonville, KY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2016Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2004.peak 32001: 1 patents20012003: 2 patents20032004: 3 patents20042006: 2 patents20062010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents20122015: 2 patents20152016: 2 patents2016

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9412048 Systems and methods for cookware detection Li Guan 2016-08-09
9250618 PWM based energy management with local distributed transformer constraints William J. Burke, John K. Besore, Jeff Donald Drake, David Joseph Najewicz 2016-02-02 $20,555,000
9014864 Aggregate load management at a system level David Joseph Najewicz, Jeff Donald Drake, William J. Burke 2015-04-21 $22,852,000
8937879 System and method for changing network topology based on energy consumption Jeff Donald Drake 2015-01-20 $28,539,000
8173942 Self-cleaning over the range oven Joshua Stephen Wiseman, Christopher Edward O'Malley, Stephen Bernard Froelicher, Karen Edberg, Jay Andrew Broniak 2012-05-08 $13,545,000
7750271 Systems and methods for controlling oven cooking Tim Worthington 2010-07-06 $30,276,000
7041940 Power management systems and methods Stephen M. Bakanowski, David Laurence Kinny, Lawrence Michael Portaro, Timothy Francis Powell, Mark Patrick Schoenegge +2 more 2006-05-09 $46,903,000
7030349 Combination oven illumination in microwave only cooking mode Todd Vincent Graves, Dennis Patrick Kill, Jesse Spalding Head 2006-04-18 $32,004,000
6730880 Oven and methods for operating same Mark Anthony Chissom, Peta-Gaye Whitbourne, Hiram Dwayne Cornett, Jennifer Elizabeth Rael, Coleen Judith Muegge +1 more 2004-05-04 $54,354,000
6727478 Multi rack oven and methods for operating same Jennifer Elizabeth Rael, Coleen Judith Muegge, Peta-Gaye Whitbourne, David Laurence Kinny 2004-04-27 $51,799,000
6696676 Voltage compensation in combination oven using radiant and microwave energy Todd Vincent Graves, Dennis Patrick Kill, Jesse Spalding Head 2004-02-24 $52,119,000
6528772 Speed cooking oven and control apparatus Todd Vincent Graves, Dennis Patrick Kill, Jesse Spalding Head 2003-03-04 $51,408,000
6525301 Combination oven with manual entry of control algorithms Todd Vincent Graves, Dennis Patrick Kill, Jesse Spalding Head 2003-02-25 $72,702,000
6333492 Thermal compensation for visible light cooking oven Todd Vincent Graves, Kevin Farrelly Nolan 2001-12-25