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Gary E. Wheat — 18 Patents

GE: 18 patents #1,615 of 36,430Top 5%
Madisonville, KY: #1 of 51 inventorsTop 2%
Kentucky: #530 of 11,577 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Gary E. Wheat has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in April 2011. Gary E. Wheat ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Gary E. Wheat in Madisonville, KY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7918024 Methods and apparatus for manufacturing components Frank Mooney, Timothy Riggs, Kenneth Ray Hill, Jr., Ronald Edwards 2011-04-05 $38,490,000
7429403 Gas distributor for vapor coating method and container Terri Brown, Richard Schmidt, Edward Cove 2008-09-30 $86,821,000
7095495 Fluorescent inspection of airfoil cooling holes Gayle M. Bowles, William L. Sheyer 2006-08-22 $24,978,000
7056555 Method for coating an internal surface of an article with an aluminum-containing coating Steven Earl Bauer, Matthew Saylor, Jeffrey Allan Pfaendtner, Atul Natwerlal Shah 2006-06-06 $34,892,000
6986814 Gas distributor for vapor coating method and container Terri Brown, Richard Schmidt, Edward Cove 2006-01-17 $44,927,000
6863925 Method for vapor phase aluminiding including a modifying element Terri Brown, Roger Dale Wustman, Joseph David Rigney 2005-03-08 $50,602,000
6706323 Method for masking multiple turbine components Terry Kevin Brown, Steve E. Bauer 2004-03-16 $35,568,000
6434876 Method of applying a particle-embedded coating to a substrate Terri Brown, Roger Dale Wustman 2002-08-20 $34,652,000
6419753 Apparatus and method for masking multiple turbine components Terry Kevin Brown, Steve E. Bauer 2002-07-16 $64,031,000
6367687 Method for preparing a plate rim for brazing Jim D. Reeves, Nicholas Charles Palmer, Robert E. McCracken 2002-04-09 $54,023,000
6339879 Method of sizing and forming a cooling hole in a gas turbine engine component Terri Brown, Thomas Phillip Schumacher 2002-01-22 $144,956,000
6299509 Tumble medium and method for surface treatment Robert K. Patterson, Linda R. Crenshaw, Jon Conrad Schaeffer 2001-10-09 $100,290,000
6253441 Fabrication of articles having a coating deposited through a mask Terri Brown 2001-07-03 $104,792,000
6220947 Tumble medium and method for surface treatment Robert K. Patterson, Linda R. Crenshaw, Jon Conrad Schaeffer 2001-04-24 $146,656,000
6056507 Article with brazed end plate within an open body end Robert E. Mc Cracken, Nicholas Charles Palmer 2000-05-02 $245,058,000
5773790 Beam blocking material and method for beam drilling and inspecting cooling holes James R. Moore 1998-06-30 $40,123,000
5672261 Method for brazing an end plate within an open body end, and brazed article Robert E. McCracken, Nicholas Charles Palmer 1997-09-30 $42,934,000
5511946 Cooled airfoil tip corner Ching-Pang Lee, Barry T. Malone, Nicholas Charles Palmer, Robert C. Simmons 1996-04-30 $26,434,000