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Derrick Walter Simons — 23 Patents

GE: 23 patents #1,114 of 36,430Top 4%
ExxonMobil: 1 patents #5,674 of 10,161Top 60%
Greenville, SC: #62 of 1,770 inventorsTop 4%
South Carolina: #489 of 15,501 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Derrick Walter Simons has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in November 2019. Derrick Walter Simons ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Derrick Walter Simons in Greenville, SC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2007.peak 42007: 4 patents20072008: 3 patents20082009: 1 patents20092010: 1 patents20102011: 1 patents20112013: 3 patents20132014: 2 patents20142015: 3 patents20152016: 4 patents20162019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10480792 Fuel staging in a gas turbine engine Ilya Aleksandrovich Slobodyanskiy, Igor Petrovich Sidko 2019-11-19 $24,658,000
9388985 Premixing apparatus for gas turbine system Chunyang Wu, Jonathan Dwight Berry, Michael John Hughes 2016-07-12 $29,980,000
9297315 Systems and methods for determining a target exhaust temperature for a gas turbine Douglas E. Dean, Carey Edward Romoser, Kevin Wood Wilkes, Predrag Popovic, Abhijit Kulkarni 2016-03-29 $26,200,000
9291098 Turbomachine and staged combustion system of a turbomachine Wei Chen, Abdul Rafey Khan 2016-03-22 $36,851,000
9279369 Turbomachine with transition piece having dilution holes and fuel injection system coupled to transition piece Carey Edward Romoser 2016-03-08 $29,797,000
9140189 Systems and methods for detecting fuel leaks in gas turbine engines Bryan Wesley Romig, Douglas E. Dean 2015-09-22 $27,081,000
8997558 Combustor probe for gas turbine Bryan Wesley Romig, Jonathan Hale Kegley, Robert Wade Clifford 2015-04-07 $14,555,000
8959925 Combustor recovery method and system Bryan Wesley Romig, Venkat Narra 2015-02-24 $12,681,000
8904797 Sector nozzle mounting systems Jonathan Dwight Berry, Jason Thurman Stewart 2014-12-09 $12,892,000
8707704 Method and apparatus for assembling turbine engines Jeffrey Scott LeBegue, Krishna Kumar Venkataraman 2014-04-29 $19,153,000
8474268 Method of mitigating undesired gas turbine transient response using event based actions Jason Dean Fuller, Douglas E. Dean, Christopher T. Meadows 2013-07-02 $14,581,000
8371101 Radial inlet guide vanes for a combustor Baifang Zuo, William David York, Willy Steve Ziminsky 2013-02-12 $19,407,000
8370044 NOX compliant peak for gas turbine Douglas E. Dean, Abhijit Kulkarni 2013-02-05 $20,690,000
7887322 Mixing hole arrangement and method for improving homogeneity of an air and fuel mixture in a combustor Predrag Popovic, Krishna Kumar Venkataraman 2011-02-15 $37,156,000
7854121 Independent pilot fuel control in secondary fuel nozzle Daniel Doyle Vandale, Alberto Jose Negroni, Carey Edward Romoser 2010-12-21 $36,939,000
7593803 Method for controlling fuel splits to gas turbine combustor Timothy Andrew Healy 2009-09-22 $112,565,000
7389643 Inboard radial dump venturi for combustion chamber of a gas turbine Thomas Charles Amond, III, Ajay Gupta 2008-06-24 $57,417,000
7373772 Turbine combustor transition piece having dilution holes Aja Kumar Gupta, Carey Edward Romoser 2008-05-20 $37,765,000
7320213 System for identification of hot and cold chambers in a gas turbine combustor Minesh Ashok Shah, Ajai Singh, Willy Steve Ziminsky 2008-01-22 $113,669,000
7246002 Method for controlling fuel splits to gas turbine combustor Timothy Andrew Healy 2007-07-17 $59,465,000
7210297 Method and apparatus for identification of hot and cold chambers in a gas turbine combustor Minesh Ashok Shah, Ajai Singh, Willy Steve Ziminsky 2007-05-01 $57,013,000
7185494 Reduced center burner in multi-burner combustor and method for operating the combustor Willy Steve Ziminsky, Arthur James Fossum 2007-03-06 $28,880,000
7181916 Method for operating a reduced center burner in multi-burner combustor Willy Steve Ziminsky, Arthur James Fossum 2007-02-27 $50,164,000