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Howard D. Driver — 9 Patents

GE: 6 patents #5,843 of 36,430Top 20%
ExxonMobil: 3 patents #3,063 of 10,161Top 35%
Raleigh, NC: #931 of 6,378 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #5,916 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Howard D. Driver has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in April 2014. Howard D. Driver ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Howard D. Driver in Raleigh, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1981 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 1982.peak 21981: 1 patents19811982: 2 patents19822008: 1 patents20082009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents20112012: 2 patents20122014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8710834 Drive coil, measurement probe comprising the drive coil and methods utilizing the measurement probe Andrzej Michal May, Waseem Ibrahim Faidi, Changting Wang, Nilesh Tralshawala, Aparna Chakrapani Sheila-Vadde +3 more 2014-04-29 $19,153,000
8303882 Apparatus and method of making composite material articles 2012-11-06 $27,923,000
8221085 Wind blade joint bonding grid Jamie T. Livingston 2012-07-17 $15,242,000
7976282 Preform spar cap for a wind turbine rotor blade Jamie T. Livingston, Sjef van Breugel, Thomas B. Jenkins, Jan Willem Bakhuis, Andrew Billen +1 more 2011-07-12 $20,796,000
7637721 Methods and apparatus for producing wind energy with reduced wind turbine noise Stefan Herr 2009-12-29 $67,445,000
7360996 Wind blade assembly and method for damping load or strain 2008-04-22 $81,002,000
4362590 Hybrid piston pin 1982-12-07 $11,882,000
4311406 Hybrid piston pin 1982-01-19 $16,401,000
4306489 Composite piston Frank H. Doyal, II 1981-12-22 $49,571,000