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David Edwin Budinger — 39 Patents

GE: 38 patents #476 of 36,430Top 2%
Loveland, OH: #37 of 930 inventorsTop 4%
Ohio: #1,147 of 73,341 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
David Edwin Budinger has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in September 2025. David Edwin Budinger ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list David Edwin Budinger in Loveland, OH, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12428713 Amorphous ductile braze alloy compositions, and related methods and articles Raghavendra Rao Adharapurapu, Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti, Pazhayannur Ramanathan Subramanian, Jeffrey Jon Schoonover 2025-09-30
11759877 Amorphous ductile braze alloy compositions, and related methods and articles Raghavendra Rao Adharapurapu, Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti, Pazhayannur Ramanathan Subramanian, Jeffrey Jon Schoonover 2023-09-19 $28,681,000
8544173 Turbine nozzle biform repair Matthew Miller, Marek M. Steplewski, Wayne Ray Grady, Robert Ingram Ackerman, Cary Michael Kinder +1 more 2013-10-01 $25,574,000
8124245 Blaze cladding for direct metal laser sintered materials Ronald Lance Galley, Ashwin Raghavan, David Allen Kastrup 2012-02-28 $15,281,000
8021491 Method for selectively removing coatings from metal substrates Lawrence Bernard Kool, Michael Howard Rucker 2011-09-20
7845549 MIM braze preforms 2010-12-07 $24,593,000
7811396 Method for HVOF or LPPS restoration coating repair of a nickel-base superalloy article Brent Ross Tholke, Matthew Miller, Warren D. Grossklaus, Jr., Joshua Leigh Miller, Melvin Robert Jackson 2010-10-12 $33,069,000
7775416 Microwave brazing process 2010-08-17 $22,126,000
7748601 Brazed articles, braze assemblies and methods therefor utilizing gold/copper/nickel brazing alloys Kazim Ozbaysal 2010-07-06 $30,276,000
7658315 Process of brazing superalloy components Ronald Lance Galley, Nripendra Nath Das 2010-02-09 $148,226,000
7653994 Repair of HPT shrouds with sintered preforms Paul A. Dasilva, Jeffrey J. Reverman 2010-02-02 $58,056,000
7361233 Methods of hydrogen cleaning of metallic surfaces Ronald Lance Galley, Mark Dean Pezzutti 2008-04-22 $81,002,000
7360991 Methods and apparatus for fabricating gas turbine engines Gregory Matthew Ford, Eric Keith, Joshua Leigh Miller, Glenn Herbert Nichols 2008-04-22 $81,002,000
7331755 Method for coating gas turbine engine components Thomas Froats Broderick, Ronald Lance Galley, Clifford Earl Shamblen, Reed Oliver, Roger Owen Barbe 2008-02-19 $40,489,000
7328832 Gold/nickel/copper brazing alloys for brazing WC-Co to titanium alloys Kazim Ozbaysal 2008-02-12 $31,619,000
7326892 Process of microwave brazing with powder materials Laurent Cretegny, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Holly Sue Shulman, Morgana Lynn Fall, Shawn Michael Allan 2008-02-05 $30,171,000
7279229 Nickel-base braze material and method of filling holes therewith Richard Schmidt, Mark D. Veliz, Michael Howard Rucker 2007-10-09 $50,041,000
6982123 Method for repair of a nickel-base superalloy article using a thermally densified coating Brent Ross Tholke, Matthew Miller, Warren D. Grossklaus, Jr., Joshua Leigh Miller, Melvin Robert Jackson 2006-01-03 $35,197,000
6827254 Turbine engine component having wear coating and method for coating a turbine engine component Wayne Charles Hasz 2004-12-07 $54,919,000
6789315 Establishing a throat area of a gas turbine nozzle, and a technique for modifying the nozzle vanes Marcio MARQUES, Tathiana Carneiro de Rezende, Andreas Martin von Montfort, William G. Messelling 2004-09-14 $35,920,000
6729842 Methods and apparatus to reduce seal rubbing within gas turbine engines Vincent M. Drerup, Ronald Lance Galley, Mariusz Pawel Staszak, Ching-Pang Lee, Richard W. Albrecht 2004-05-04 $54,354,000
6679680 Built-up gas turbine component and its fabrication Jae Y. Um, Craig Douglas Carmichael, Joshua Leigh Miller, Ronald Lance Galley, Douglas M. Carlson 2004-01-20 $71,630,000
6649887 Apparatus and method for protective atmosphere induction brazing of complex geometries 2003-11-18 $61,756,000
6571472 Restoration of thickness to load-bearing gas turbine engine components Thomas F. Berry, Michael James Weimer, David J. Dietz, Mark Daniel Gorman, Matthew Stewart 2003-06-03 $63,671,000
6530971 Nickel-base braze material and braze repair method Joel H. Cohen, James M. Caldwell, Michael Glenn Gordon, Edward John Emilianowicz 2003-03-11 $76,264,000