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John E. Close — 3 Patents

GE: 3 patents #10,387 of 36,430Top 30%
Plainsboro, NJ: #597 of 1,381 inventorsTop 45%
New Jersey: #23,671 of 69,400 inventorsTop 35%
Overall (All Time): #1,328,092 of 4,157,543Top 35%
3 Patents All Time
John E. Close has been granted 3 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. All of these patents were granted in 1994. John E. Close ranks #1,328,092 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 31.9%). Patent records list John E. Close in Plainsboro, NJ, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–3 of 3 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
5344104 Low cost, selectable configuration spacecraft Peter K. Homer, Robert V. Parenti, Joel DeStefano, Wensen Chen, Eric Talley 1994-09-06 $8,294,000
5337980 Spacecraft-to-launch-vehicle transition Peter K. Homer, Robert V. Parenti, Joel DeStefano, Wensen Chen, Eric Talley 1994-08-16 $16,426,000
5324146 Spacecraft assembly with misalignment tolerant fasteners Robert V. Parenti, Peter K. Homer, Eric Talley, Joel DeStefano, Wensen Chen 1994-06-28 $10,452,000