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Gabor Ast — 19 Patents

GE: 18 patents #1,615 of 36,430Top 5%
OAOrcan Energy Ag: 1 patents #10 of 18Top 60%
Munich, DE: #411 of 11,432 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #229,345 of 4,157,543Top 6%
19 Patents All Time
Gabor Ast has been granted 19 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in October 2018. Gabor Ast ranks #229,345 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.5%). Patent records list Gabor Ast in Munich, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2014.peak 62009: 2 patents20092011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents20122013: 5 patents20132014: 6 patents20142016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–19 of 19 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10100682 Lubrication of expansion machines Andreas Grill, Jens-Patrick Springer, Andreas Sichert, Richard Aumann, Andreas Schuster 2018-10-16
9708973 Integrated reformer and waste heat recovery system for power generation Gunther Wall, Anthony Mark Thompson, Wei Wei 2017-07-18 $14,018,000
9249691 Systems and methods for cold startup of rankine cycle devices Herbert Kopecek, Simon Schoewel 2016-02-02 $20,555,000
8904791 Rankine cycle integrated with organic rankine cycle and absorption chiller cycle Matthew Alexander Lehar, Sebastian Walter Freund, Thomas Johannes Frey, Pierre Sebastien Huck, Monika Muehlbauer 2014-12-09 $12,892,000
8875515 Integrated generator cooling system Herbert Kopecek, Sebastian Walter Freund, Pierre Sebastien Huck 2014-11-04 $22,322,000
8813498 Turbine inlet condition controlled organic rankine cycle Herbert Kopecek, Thomas Johannes Frey, Pierre Sebastien Huck 2014-08-26 $14,218,000
8739535 Fluid feedback pump to improve cold start performance of organic rankine cycle plants Herbert Kopecek, Sebastian Walter Freund, Thomas Johannes Frey, Pierre Sebastien Huck, Simon Schoewel 2014-06-03 $15,090,000
8739541 System and method for cooling an expander Sebastian Walter Freund, Thomas Johannes Frey, Pierre Sebastien Huck, Herbert Kopecek, Gunther Wall 2014-06-03 $15,090,000
8650879 Integration of waste heat from charge air cooling into a cascaded organic rankine cycle system Sebastian Walter Freund, Pierre Sebastien Huck, Sara Rocci Denis, Monika Muchlbauer, Albert Andreas Scharl +1 more 2014-02-18 $14,966,000
8616006 Advanced optics and optical access for laser ignition for gas turbines including aircraft engines Sara Rocci Denis, Herbert Kopecek, Richard W. Stickles, Chukwueloka Obiora Umeh, Mark Patrick Kelsey +3 more 2013-12-31 $27,454,000
8590307 Auto optimizing control system for organic rankine cycle plants Herbert Kopecek, Thomas Johannes Frey, Sebastian Walter Freund, Pierre Sebastien Huck 2013-11-26 $25,299,000
8572972 System and method for secondary energy production in a compressed air energy storage system Thomas Johannes Frey, Matthias Finkenrath, Stephanie Marie-Noelle Hoffmann, Matthew Alexander Lehar, Richard Aumann 2013-11-05 $26,974,000
8561405 System and method for recovering waste heat Michael Adam Bartlett, Thomas Johannes Frey, Matthew Alexander Lehar 2013-10-22 $20,512,000
8459030 Heat engine and method for operating the same Matthias Finkenrath, Michael Adam Bartlett, Vittorio Tola 2013-06-11 $18,026,000
8302399 Organic rankine cycle systems using waste heat from charge air cooling Sebastian Walter Freund, Pierre Sebastien Huck, Sara Rocci Denis, Monika Muehlbauer, Albert Andreas Scharl +1 more 2012-11-06 $27,923,000
8186161 System and method for controlling an expansion system Michael Adam Bartlett, Thomas Johannes Frey, Herbert Kopecek, Helge Burghard Herwig Klockow, Matthew Alexander Lehar 2012-05-29 $11,433,000
7987676 Two-phase expansion system and method for energy recovery Thomas Johannes Frey, Herbert Kopecek, Michael Adam Bartlett, Pierre Sebastien Huck 2011-08-02 $19,505,000
7594399 System and method for power generation in Rankine cycle Matthew Alexander Lehar, Joerg Stromberger, Thomas Johannes Frey, Michael Adam Bartlett 2009-09-29 $83,447,000
7520272 Fuel injector Jassin Marcel Fritz 2009-04-21 $48,916,000