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David Michael Lax — 19 Patents

GE: 19 patents #1,485 of 36,430Top 5%
Grand Rapids, MI: #83 of 1,824 inventorsTop 5%
Michigan: #4,375 of 86,293 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
David Michael Lax has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2014 and the most recent in May 2023. David Michael Lax ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list David Michael Lax in Grand Rapids, MI, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2014 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2020.peak 52014: 1 patents20142017: 1 patents20172018: 4 patents20182019: 3 patents20192020: 5 patents20202021: 3 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11651695 Engine load model systems and methods Mark Lawrence Darnell 2023-05-16 $52,141,000
11302204 Flight management system and method of updating Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Christian Reynolds Decker 2022-04-12 $25,280,000
11174034 Optimizing aircraft control based on noise abatement volumes Mark Lawrence Darnell, Brandon James Rhone 2021-11-16 $26,219,000
11142337 Method and system for determining a descent profile Reza Ghaemi, Pierino Gianni Bonanni 2021-10-12 $24,387,000
10935984 Method and system for determining a climb profile Reza Ghaemi, Pierino Gianni Bonanni, Nicholas Visser, Owen Michael O'Keefe 2021-03-02 $38,447,000
10832581 Flight management via model-based iterative optimization Eric Richard Westervelt, Mark Lawrence Darnell, Reza Ghaemi 2020-11-10 $10,622,000
10794705 Methods and systems for optimal guidance based on energy state approximation Reza Ghaemi, Eric Richard Westervelt, Mark Lawrence Darnell 2020-10-06 $18,020,000
10777085 Efficient flight profiles with multiple RTA constraints Reza Ghaemi, Mark Lawrence Darnell, Nicholas Visser 2020-09-15
10592636 Methods and systems for flight data based parameter tuning and deployment Liling Ren, Faisal Goussous, Meet Patel, Filippo Liverini, Sean Hwang +1 more 2020-03-17 $10,893,000
10579053 Aircraft control based on fuel, time, and deterioration costs Albert Jeffrey Ellis, Mark Lawrence Darnell 2020-03-03 $15,775,000
10521981 Vehicle wash assessment Jeffrey Russell Bult, Mark Lawrence Darnell 2019-12-31 $15,125,000
10460610 Aircraft profile optimization with communication links to an external computational asset Eric Richard Westervelt, MacKenzie Dylan Cumings, Mark Lawrence Darnell, Liling Ren, Nicholas Visser 2019-10-29 $21,217,000
10399689 Optimizing aircraft control based on noise abatement volumes Mark Lawrence Darnell, Brandon James Rhone 2019-09-03 $13,145,000
10106267 Enhancing engine performance to improve fuel consumption based on atmospheric ice particles Nicholas Visser, Sridhar Adibhatla 2018-10-23 $22,850,000
10005561 Controlling aircraft using thrust differential trim Steven Louis Kiebles, Otto Darias, Mark Lawrence Darnell, Sean Hwang, Christopher Daniel Holbert +4 more 2018-06-26 $20,372,000
9938017 Enhancing engine performance to improve fuel consumption based on atmospheric rain conditions Nicholas Visser, Sridhar Adibhatla 2018-04-10 $15,513,000
9911339 Experimental real-time performance enhancement for aircraft Sridhar Adibhatla, Szabolcs A. Borgyos, Mark Lawrence Darnell 2018-03-06 $13,192,000
9745052 Determining enhanced operating state for aircraft 2017-08-29 $10,492,000
8868345 Meteorological modeling along an aircraft trajectory Frank Saggio, III 2014-10-21 $12,219,000