Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
JM

John W. McElroy — 15 Patents

GE: 9 patents #3,767 of 36,430Top 15%
LCLiberty Technology Center: 1 patents #2 of 5Top 40%
UNUnknown: 1 patents #29,356 of 83,584Top 40%
Melbourne, FL: #84 of 1,077 inventorsTop 8%
Florida: #3,395 of 67,251 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
John W. McElroy has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at GE. The first was granted in 1982 and the most recent in July 2017. John W. McElroy ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list John W. McElroy in Melbourne, FL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1982 to 2017Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2015.peak 31982: 1 patents19821991: 1 patents1992: 1 patents19921995: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032007: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 3 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 1 patents2017

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9694835 Detection system and method for rail vehicle Jared Klineman Cooper, John William Brand, Robert Francis Bryant, Scott William Dulmage, David Allen Eldredge +2 more 2017-07-04
9463818 Systems for controlling a vehicle system factoring mass attributable to weather William Cherrick Schoonmaker, Jared Klineman Cooper, Stephen Shelton, David Michael Peltz 2016-10-11 $18,366,000
9233697 Method and system for controlling a vehicle system factoring mass attributable to weather William Cherrick Schoonmaker, Jared Klineman Cooper, Stephen Shelton, David Michael Peltz 2016-01-12 $33,433,000
9008933 Off-board scheduling system and method for adjusting a movement plan of a transportation network Jared Klineman Cooper, Mitchell Scott Wills, Kevin Campbell, Jian Li, Bruce Hancock +5 more 2015-04-14 $17,698,000
8996293 System and method for determining a slack condition of a vehicle system Jared Klineman Cooper, Robert James Foy, Eugene Smith, Frank Wawrzyniak 2015-03-31 $12,199,000
8930126 Systems and methods for fuel consumption analysis David Allen Eldredge, Yi Chen, Jerod Reid Svidunovich, Timothy Robert Brown 2015-01-06 $15,758,000
8805605 Scheduling system and method for a transportation network Jared Klineman Cooper, Mitchell Scott Wills, Kevin Campbell, Jian Li, Bruce Hancock +5 more 2014-08-12 $27,659,000
8452466 Methods and system for detecting railway vacancy James Kiss, Charles Terra 2013-05-28 $21,022,000
8209205 Planning and scheduling tool assistant assuring high utilization of resources Sean P. McElroy, Kirk Samsel 2012-06-26
7257471 Communications device for remote control of rail track switches in a train yard David Kornick, Robert James Foy, Eric Bruce Moore, Chris Luevano, George Freeman 2007-08-14 $41,879,000
6574441 System for adding sound to pictures 2003-06-03
5477149 Method and apparatus for non-invasive monitoring of solenoid valves George M. Spencer, Michael Lind 1995-12-19
5083109 Rotating source verification device P. Leslie Schaumberg 1992-01-21
5008841 Non-invasive system and method for inspection of valves 1991-04-16
4317368 Acoustic emission warning system for a fiberglass member 1982-03-02